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November  and  December,  1863. 


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BY 


DEI-    Ha    ^«7V"-A.rrE3:El.«, 

SECRETARY  EXECUTIVE  DEPARTMENT. 


To  whom  all  Orders  for  the  PampklH  must  be  Addressed. 


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COSfEDERATE  UNION  POWER  PRESS. 

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(No.  L) 

An  Act  to  legalize  and  make  valid  all  adjournments  of  the  Superior 
Courts  of  the  several  counties  of  this  State  bij  the  Clerks  of  said 
Courts,  where  the  presiding  Judges  of  said  Courts  may  hare 
been  absent,  and  may  have  failed  to  issue  an  order  for  adjoum- 
me7it  to  the  Clerks  of  said  Courts,  from  Providential  cause. 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  ^v.  That  in  all  cases  where  any 
of  the  Superior  Courts  of  this  State  may  have  been  adjourn- 
ed by  the  Clerks  of  said  Courts,  in  the  absence  of  the  pre- 
siding Judge,  who  may  have  failed  to  issue  an  order  for  ad- 
journment to  the  said  Clerk,  from  Providential  cause,  said 
adjournment  by  said  Clerks  are  hereby  legalized  and  declar- 
ed to  be  valid  to  all  intents  and  purposes. 

Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Nov.  IS,  1S63. 


(No.  2.) 

An  Act  to  alter  and  change  the  place  of  holding  the  Superior  and 
Inferior  Courts  for  the  county  of  Mcintosh. 

Whereas,  the  Court-house  of  said, county  has  been  burn- 
ed by  the  public  enemy  at  Darieu,  as  well  as  the  entire  city 
of  Darien. 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  ^'c,  That  from  and  after  the 
passage  of  this  Act,  the  Superior  and  Inferior  Courts  of  the 
county  of  Mcintosh  shall  be  held  at  Ebenezer  Church,  near 
the  residence  of  W.  H.  McDonald  in  said  county,  or  such 
other  place  as  the  Inferior  Court  shall  ordain  and  direct. 

Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Nov.  23,  1863. 

(No  3.) 

An  Act  to  compel  Overseers  or  Track  Menders  on  the  different 
Rail  Roads  in  this  State,  to  file  a,  list  of  the  /narks  and  brands 
of  all  stock  killed  upon  their  respective  sections,  and  for  other 
purposes. 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  ^t.,  That  all  overseers  or  track 
menders  on  the  different   Railroads   in  this   State,  shall  file 


weekly  with  the  station  agents  a  list  of  different  marks  aiid 
brands  of  all  stock  killed  upon  their  respective  sections  the 
preceding  week,  so  as  to  be  compelled  to  identify  in  their 
w^eekly  report  on  what  pg,rt  of  their  section  such  stock  was 
or  may  have  been  killed,  "by  some  designated  place  on  said 
section  ;  said  list  to  be  placed  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  the 
office  of  the  said  Station  agents,  for  the  inspection  of  all 
persons  concerned. 

Sec.  II.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  upon  failure  of  any 
overseer  or  track  mender  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of 
the  first  section  of  this  Act,  he  shall  be  liable  to  pay  the 
owners  of  said  stock  double  the  value  of  all  stock  killed  on 
his  particular  section  and  not  reported,  during  such  failure 
the  same  to  be  recovered  in  the  same  manner  as  now  pro- 
vided by  law  for  the  collection  of  claims  for  stock  killed  on 
Railroads  in  this  State.  .         - 

Sec.  III.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  in  case  the  overseer 
or  track  mender  is  insolvent,  then  and  in  that  case  the  Rail- 
road Company  in  whose  employ  they  are,  shall  be  liable  to 
pay  according  to  the  provisions  ol  the  second  section  of 
this  Act,  Provided,  That  in  all  cases  when  the  penalty  shall 
be  collected  from  the  track  mender,  the  liability  of  the  Rail- 
road Company  in  whose  employment  he  may  be,  shall 
thenceforth  cease. 

Sec.  IV.     Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Nov.  23d,  1SG3. 


(No.  4.) 
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All  Act  to  alter  and  change  the  hour  for  ihe  meeting  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  of  the  State  of  Georgia. 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  ^v..  That  the  hour  for  the  meet- 
ing of  the  General  Assembly  of  the   State   of  Georgia,   be 
and  the  same  is  hereby  altered   and  changed  from    noon  to  ^ 
the  hour  of  ten  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  ;  any  law  or  custom  fP 
to  the  contrary  notwithstanding. 

Assented  to  Nov.  23d,  1863. 


(No.  5.) 

An  Act  for  the  relief  of  the  iieople  in  certain  counties  therein  men-- 
lioned,  and  for  other  pwjposes. 

Whereas,  Owing  to  the  depredations  of  the  enemy  and 
the  presence  and  necessities  of  our  own  army  foraging  upon 
the  country,  and  also  the  extreme  drowth  and  early  frost, 
the  people  of  Northern  Georgia  are  in  great  need  of  bread- 
stuffs,  and  ti'/te?-(?as,  nearly  the  entire  laboring  population  of 


«ai<i  section  is  now  in  the  army,  and  the  people  must  inevit- 
ably suffei:  unless  aided  by  the  generosity  of  the  State, 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  ^f.,  That  the  Quartermaster 
General  of  this  State,  be,  and  he  is  hereby  directed  and  re- 
quired to  purchase  and  ship  to  such  points  on  the  Railroad 
as  shall  be  designated  by  the  Justices  of  the  Inferior  Courts 
of  the  several  counties  hereinafter  enumerated,  and  subject 
to  their  order,  the  following  amounts  of  corn,  to-wit : 

6,000  Bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Chattooga. 

10,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Walker. 

8,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Dade. 

8,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Catoosa. 

10,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Whitfield. 

7,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Murray. 

8,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Gilmer. 

8,000  bushels  of  corn  to  tife  county  of  Fannin. 

8,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Union. 

4,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Towns. 

3,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Rabun. 

4,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Habersham. 

3,500  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  White. 

4,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Lumpkin. 

3,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Dawson. 

And  3,000  bushels  of  corn  to  the  county  of  Pickens,  or 
so  much  thereof  as  the  Governor  may  think  necessary;  and 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  his  Excellency  the  Governor  to  draw 
his  warrant  upon  the  Treasury  for  the  amount  of  money 
necessary  to  pay  for  the  purchase,  sacking  and  shipping  said 
corn,  >vhich  amount  shall  be  paid  out  of  any-  money  in  the 
Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated. 

Sec.  II.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  said  Quartermaster 
General  be  authorized  to  employ  such  agents  and  to  take 
control  and  use  such  transportation  by  the  order  of  the  Gov- 
ernor as  in  his  judgment  shall  be  absolutely  necessary  to 
carry  out  the  objects  of  this  Act,  and  to  pay  just  compensa- 
tion for  the  services  of  said  agents  or  transportation  to  be 
approved  by  the  Governor. 

Sec.  III.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  said  Justices  to  make  such  arrangements  for  the 
transportation  of  said  corn  from  the  Railroad  to  their  res- 
pective counties  as  circumstances  may  require,  and  to  em- 
ploy such  agents  to  take  charge  of  and  distribute  the  same 
as  may  be  necesary  ;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  Justi- 
ces to  furnish  or  cause  to  be  furnished  by  said  agents  to  each 
soldier's  family  and  the  families  of  of  deceased  soldiers;  the 
familiesand  widows  whose  sons  are  in  the  military  service 
or  whose  eons  have  died  in  the  military  service  who  are  des- 
titute of  corn  and  need  the  same,  a  sufficient  quantity  of 
corn  for  their  bread  and  no  more  free  of  charge;  and  to 
each  person  or  family  who  are  in  such  indigent  circumstan- 
ces as  to  require  it  (to  be  judged  of  by  the  Justices  afore- 


said)  a  sufficiency  for  their  bread  and  no  more,  free  of  charge ; 
and  to  such  other  persons  in  their  respective  counties  who 
may  be  destitute  of  corn  and  need  the  same,  a  sufficiency 
for  bread  and  no  more,  at  the  price  or  cost  of  its  delivery  ; 
and  the  money  arising  from  such  sale  or  sales,  to  be  paid 
over  to  said  Justices  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  soldiers  fam- 
ilies, the  widows  of  deceased  soldiers,  widows  whose  sons 
are  in  the  army,  or  whose  sons  have  died  in  the  army,  or  been 
disabled,  and  the  indigent  poor  of  their  respective  counties, 
after  paying  all  costs  that  may  arise  in  transporting  and 
distributing  said  corn. 

Sec.  IV.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That. if  any  persons 
through  whose  hands  said  corn  may  pass,  shall  intentionally 
misapply  said  corn,  or  convert  the  same  to  his  own  use  or 
any  any  other  way  direct  or  use  the  same,  contrary  to  the 
objects  contemplated  in  this  Act,  he,  she  or  they  so  oftend- 
ing,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  conviction 
thereof,  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  comiUion 
jail  of  the  county  for  not  less  than  two  months  nor  longer 
than  six  months. 

Sec.  V.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  it  shall  be  the  du- 
ty of  said  disbursing  agents  under  the  penalties  contained 
in  the  fourth  section  of  this  Act,  to  keep  a  book  in  which 
he  shall  have  entered  all  corn  distributed  by  him,  and  to 
whom,  and  how  much,  and  at  what  price  sold,  and  said  book 
shall  be  open  to  inspection  to  any  person  at  any  and  at  all 
times  ;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  agent  to  exhibit  said 
book  to  said  Justices  at  least  once  a  month  ;  and  said  Jus- 
tices shall  have  power  to  dismiss  said  agents  at  any  time 
they  may  see  proper  ;  Provided,  the  provisions  of  this  bill 
do  not  come  in  conflict  with  the  absolute  wants  of  the  Gen- 
eral Government. 

Sec.  VI.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Nov.  26,  1S63. 


(No.  G.) 
An  Act  to  allow  the  Clerks  of  the   Courts  of  Ordinary  of  this 
State  to  draw  Common  School  funds  due  their  respective  coun- 
ties for  the  years  1862  and  1863,  when  the  Ordinaries  have 
resigned  without  drawing  the  same. 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  Sfc,  That  the  Clerks  of  Courts 
of  Ordinary  of  the  several  counties  in  this  State  be,  and 
they  are  hereby  authorized  to  draw  from  the  Treasury  of 
this  State  the  portion  of  Common  School  Funds  going  to 
and  belonging  to  their  respective  counties  for  the  years  1862 
and  1863,  where  the  same  has  not  been  drawn,  in  the  same 
manner  and  under  the  same  provisions  as  the  Ordinaries 
themselves  would  have  been  entitled  to  draw,  had  they  not 
resigned. 

Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 
Assented  to  Nov.  28,  1863. 


(No.  7.) 
^n  Act  to  exempt  certain  lands  from  taxation. 

Whereas,  A  large  number  of  persons  in  various  parts  of 
this  State  have  been  driven  from  their  homes  by  the  enemy, 
and  have  consequently  been  put  to  great  expense  and  much 
loss  by  abandoning  their  homes,  and  many  have  not  been 
able  to  make  provisions  for  the  support  of  their  families. 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  ^r.,  That  the  lands  of  such  per- 
sons lying  in  the  counties  from  which  they  are  driven  by 
the  public  enemy,  be,,  and  the  same  are  hereby  exempt  from 
taxation,  '^xcept  a  nominal  tax  of  one  cent  per  acre. 

Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Nov.  30,  1863. 


(No.  8.) 

An  Act  to  define  the  oathes  of  Notaries  Public  in  the  Slate  (f 
Georgia,  and  for  other  purposes. 

Whereas,  Doubts  exist  in  regard  to  the  proper  oaths  to 
be  administered  to  Notaries  Public  of  this  State  ;  for  reme- 
dy whereof, 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  4"c.,  That  from'  and  after  the 
passage  of  this  act,  the  only  oath  or  affirmation  to  be  ad- 
ministered to  Notaries  Public  of  the  State  of  Georjjia  shall 
be  as  follows  ;  "I,  ,  do  solemnly  swear,  or 

affirm,  that  I  will  well  and  truly  perform  the  duties  of  a 
Notary  Public  for  the  county  of  to  the  best  of 

my  ability  ;  and  I  further  swear,  or  affirm,  that  I  am  not 
the  holder  of  any  public  money  belonging  to  the  State,  un- 
accounted for.     So  help  me  God." 

Sec.  II.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  Notaries  Public 
shall  be  authorized  to  administer  all  oaths  which  are  not 
by  law  required  to  be  administered  by  particular  officers. 

Sec.  III.  And  whereas,  Doubts  exist  whether,  under  the 
statute,  the  seal  of  a  Notary  Public  is  necessary  to  his  at- 
testation to  deeds ;  be  it  therefore  enacted,  that  no  suck 
seal  shall  be  required  to  such  attestation  ;  and  that  all  suck 
attestations  heretofore  made  without  a  seal  shall  be  valid 
and  binding  in  law. 

Sec.  IV.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  1st  Dec,  1863. 


(No.  9.) 

An  Act  to  conthme  in  force  the  Jourth  section  of  an  act  passed 
over  the  Governor's  veto  on  the  SOth  day  of  November,  ISGO, 
C7ititled  an  act  to  jrrovide  against  the  forfeiture  of  the  several 
hank  charters  of  this  State  on  accoutit  of  non-specie  j)ayments 
for  a\  given  time,  and  for  other  jpnrposes,  p)assed  in  the  year 
1857,  and  to  suspend  the  pains  and  penalties  imposed  upon  the 
several  banJcs  and  their  oncers  in  this  State  for  non-payment  of 
specie,  and  for  other  pwposcs  ;  and  also  an  act  to  add  a  provi- 
so to  the  ith  section  of  an  act  entitled  art  act  for  the  relief  of  the 
people  and  banks  of  this  State,  and  for  other  purposes,  2^<^issed 
on  the  SOth  of  November,  1860,  ajid  to  add  an  additional  sec- 
tion to  said  act,  assented  to  December  20th,  1860. 
Section  I.   Hie  General  Assembly  of  Georgia,  do  enact.  That 
the  before  recited  part  of  an  act,  and  also  the  before  reci- 
ted act,  be,  and  the  same  are  hereby  re-enacted  and  contin- 
ued in  force  until  the  first  day  of  January,  1865. 

Sec.  II.  Be  it  furthei  enacted,  That  this  act  shall  go  into 
effect  and  be  in  force  on  and  after  the  first  day  of  Decem- 
ber, 1863. 

Sec.  III.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  1,  1863. 


(No.  10.) 


An  Act  to  authorize  all  persons  in  the  military  service  of  this  State,  or  Confederate 
States,  including  those  in  hospitals  and  detailed  service,  to  vote  atmunicipal  elec- 
tions. 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  &c.,  That  all  persons  in  the  military  service  of  this  State, 
and  the  Confederate  States,  including  those  in  hospitals,  and  detailed  men  for  any  pur- 
pose by  the  military  authority,  citizens  of  this  State  who  are  now  by  law  entitled  to 
vote,  or  who  may  at  the  time  of  such  ejection  be  entitled  to  vote  at  any  municipal 
election  in  this  State,  be,  and  they  are  hereby  authorized  to  assemble  at  such  place 
as  they  may  be  stationed  at,  and  cast  their  votes  as  though  they  were  in  the  town  or 
city  where  they  reside. 

Sec.  II.  That  at  said  elections  it  shall  be  lawful  for  any  two  commissioned  officers, 
residents  of  the  State,  to  preside  and  hold  said  elections  under  the  same  rules  and 
regulations  that  are  now  prescribed  by  law  for  holding  such  elections,  and  make  re- 
turns of  the  same,  as  though  the  said  election  had  been  held  in  the  town  or  city  of 
the  residence  of  the  voters  respectively,  sending  a  copy  ol  the  list  of  voters,  and  a 
copy  of  the  tally  sheet  to  either  the  Mayor,  Intcndent.  Aldermen,  Councilmen  or 
Wardens  of  the  town  or  city  where  the  soldiers  voting  reside;  and  all  elections  thus 
held  shall  be  accounted  good  and  valid;  provided,  the  returns  thereof  shall  reach 
the  proper  municipal  authority  witiiin  fifteen  days  after  the  day  of  said  election. 

Sec.  III.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  registry  laws  in  force  for  all  cities  and 
towns  in  this  State  shall  not  apply  to  absent  soldiers  and  detailed  men  voting  under 
the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Sec.  IV.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  said  commL^sioned  officers  authorized  to  hold 
the  several  elections  provided  for  by  this  act,  shall,  before  they  proceed  to  hold  said 
elections,  subscribe  to  the  following  statement  in  writing  (first  state  the  regiment, 
battalion  or  company  of  which  they  are  members,  station  and  date)  ;  "  Each  and 
both  of  us  declare  on  honor,  that  we  will  faithfully  superintend  this  day's  election; 
that  we  are  commissioned  officers  in  the  Confederate  or  Stat6  service  (state  the  reg- 
iment, battalion  or  company) ;  that  we  will  make  a  just  and  true  return  thereof; 
that  we  will  not  knowingly  permit  any  one  to  vote  unless  we  believe  he  is  entitled  to 
do  80,  according  to  the  laws  of  Georgia  ;  nor  knowingly  prohibit  any  one  from  vot- 
ing who  is  entitled  by  law  to  vote  ;  and  we  will  not  divulge  for  whom  any  vote  was 
cast,  unless  called  on  under  the  law  to  do  so."  And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  su- 
perintendents to  foi-ward  a  copy  of  said  statement,  with  the  copy  of  the  tally  sheet 
and  list  of  voters,  and  the  same  shall  be  taken  in  lieu  of  the  oath  now  required  by 
law  to  be  taken  by  superintendents  of  such  elections. 

Sec  IV.  Kepeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  Ist,  1863. 


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(No.  U.) 

An  Act  to  repeal  the  actflBscnted  to  tlio30tli   day  of  November,  18fil,  consolidating 
the  oflices  of  Keceiver  of  Tax  Ueturns  and  Tax  Collector  in  this  State. 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  &c.,  That  the  act  to  consolidate  the  offices  of  Receiver 
of  Tax  Returns  and  of  Tax  Collector  in  tliis  State,  and  to  reqniretne  duties  thereof 
to  be  discliarj^ed  bv  one  officer,  to  be  styled  Tux  Receiver  and  Collector,  as-sented  to 
on  the  30th  day  of  ifovember.  18(11,  b(,\  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed  ;  provi.ied 
that  no  Receiver  of  Tax  Returns  or  Tax  Collector  shall  receive  more  than  fifteen 
hundred  dollars  coramitssions  on  the  General  State  Tax. 

Assented  to  Nov.  3(1,1863. 


(No.  12.) 
An  Act  to  amend  the  oath  of  tax-payers  for  the  year  1864,  and  for  otlicr  pnrposes. 

Section  I.  The  General  Asi^embly  of  the  State  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  from 
and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  the  oath  of  nou-re.<ident  tax-payers  required  to  be 
taken  on  .special  retnrn.x,  as  it  now  stands  in  the  seven  hundreil  and  sixty-fourth  sec- 
tion of  the  Code  of  Georgia,  he  so  amended  (or  the  year  1S()1  as  to  make  it  read, 
"  and  that  it  was  not  worth,  on  the  first  of  April  in  this  year,  more  than  the  valua- 
tion you  have  affixed  to  it  in  Confederate  Treasury  Notes,  to  the  best  of  yonr  know- 
ledge and  belief,"  instead  of  reading  as  it  now  dues,  "and  that  it  is  not  worth  more 
than  the  valuation  you  have  atiixed  to  it,  to  tlie  best  of  your  knowledge  and  belief;" 
and  that  tlie  oath  of  taxpayers  required  to  be  taken  on  general  return,  as  is  now  re- 
quired in  the  same  section  of  said  Code,  be  changed  so  as  to  make  it  read,  "and  the 
value  you  liave  affixed  is  a  just  and  true  valuatii  n  on  the  lirst  day  of  April  of  this 
year,  in  Confederate  Treasury  Nott  s."  instead  of  reading,  "and  that  the  value  you 
have  affixed  to  it  is  a  just  and  true  valuation,"  as  it  now  stands  stated  in  said  Code. 

Sec.  II.  Be  it  fnrtiier  enacted.  That  in  cose  anv  tax-payer  shall  fail  or  refuse  to 
make  his  return  in  accordance  with  thi*  amended  oatli,  he  shall  be  deemed  a  defaul- 
ter, and  his  property  shall  be  double-taxed  according  to  the  valuation  prescribed  iu 
the  foregosng  section  ot  this  act. 

Sec.  III.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  all  persons  holding  notes  or  indebtedness 
on  any  individual  or  incorporation,  shall  give  in  the  same  at  its  value  in  Confederate 
Treasury  Notes. 

Sec.  IV.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  if  any  of  the  taxpayers  of  this  State 
shall  hav^made  a  return  of  their  property  to  the  Receiver  and  Collector  previous  to 
the  passage  of  this  act.  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  Collector  and  Receiver  to  requiri 
or  such  tax-payers,  that  they  make  another  return  to  him  upon  valuation  as  provi- 
ded for  in  this  act. 

Sec.  V.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assepted  to  Dec.  2,  1863. 


(No.  13.) 


An  Act  to  carry  into  effect  so  much  of  the  second  section  of  the  fourth  article  of  the 
Constitution  as  relates  to  divorces. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  when  a  libel  for  di- 
vorce is  in-^tituted.  the  respondent  may.  in  his  plea  and  answer,  recriminate  and  ask 
a  divorce  in  his  or  her  fHvor,  and  if,  (in  the  triiil,  tl-.e  jury  believe  such  party  is  enti- 
tled to  divorce,  instead  of  the  libelant,  they  may  so  find  upon  letral  proof,  so  as  to 
avoid  the  iieces'sity  ot  a  cross  ac-timi.  If  one  verdict  is  ftmnd  in  favor  of  therespon 
dent,  the  libellant  cannot  dismiss  his  or  her  .suit,  without  the  consent  of  the  opposite 
party. 

Sec.  II.  Repeala  couflioting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  3,  1863. 


(No    14.) 

An  Act  to   further  provide  for  the  suppression  of  unlawful  aistillation  of  grain  and 

other  commodities  in  this  State. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  each  .and  every 
distillery  which  may  bo  run  or  worked  in  this  State  contrary  to  anv  or  either  of  the 
provisions  of  the  laws  heretofore  passed,  to  pr(;vent  unlawful  distillation,  is  hereby 
declared  to  be  a  public  nuisance,  and  in  addition  to  the  remedies  heretofore  provf- 
ded,  may  be  abated  as  follows : 

Sec-  II.  It  shall  be  tlie  duty  of  each  and  every  Jnstice  of  the  Peace,  in  the  several 
Militia  Districtsof  this  State,  and  Justices  of  the  Iiferior  Courts,  to  diligently  en- 
quire about  every  such  still  as  may  be  either  publicly  or  clandestinely  run  in  his 
District,  or  County,  and  upon  being  informed  on  oath,  or  being  otherwise  induced  to 
the  opinion  that  such  still  or  stills  are  running  unlawfully,  or  tliat  unlawful  sales  of 
epirituoua  liquors  are  made  from  the  proceeds  of  such  stills,  by  tbe.  owner  of  said 


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«tiil8  or  his  a^ent,  he  shall  issnc  hie  wnrrant  against  the  party  or  parties  owning  and 
operating  saiii  still,  and  the  still  itself,  including  botli,  which  said  warrant  shall 
forthwith  be  delivered  to  the  Sheriflf  of  the  county,  who,  thereupon,  shall  arrest  the 
party  anjl  seize  the  still.  The  writ  shall  be  returnable  twenty  days  after  it  shall 
thus  be  issued,  and  at  that  time  the  Magistrate  shall  summarily  try  the  question 
with  the  assistance  of  twelve  free  holders  of  the  county,  and  one  or  more  Magis- 
trates, as  to  whether  or  not  such  still  so  seized,  is  a  public  nuisance.  The  effect  of 
a  verdict  of  no  nuisance,  shall  be  to  discharge  the  party  or  parties,  and  release  the 
still.  The  affect  of  a  verdict  of  nuisance,  shall  be  to  retain  both  in  custody,  but  the 
party  or  parties  sliall  have  (he  right  of  appeal  or  certioron  to  the  Superior  Court 
of  the  county,  pending,  which,  however  the  still  or  stills  s^hall  be  retained  in  the 
custody  of  tlie  oflicers  of  the  law,  and  not  to  be  run  during  the  pendancy  of  the 
suit,  but  the  puity  or  parties  shall  be  at  liberty  to  go  at  large  upon  giving  bond  with 
good  and  suflicient  security  in  a  sum  to  be  judged  of  by  the  Court,  ttiis  however, 
shall  iu  no  wise  exempt  such  party  or  parties  from  indictment  under  otlier  provisions 
of  law,  to  prevent  imlawful  distillation,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  presiding 
Magistrates  to  investigate  fully,  whether  or  not  such  party  or  parties  have  violated 
any  of  the  provisions  of  the  law,  and  in  each  ease,  and  for  each  day,  to  biud  such 
party  or  parties  over  in  bonds  for  their  api)earauce  to  the  next  Superior  Court  for 
trial,  or  else  commit  them  to  jail.  The  Magistrf  tes  shall  return  their  proceedings 
to  the  next  term  of  the  Superior  Court. 

Sec,  III.  For  non-compliance  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act  each  officer  fail- 
ing promptly  and  fully  to  do  his  duty,  shall  be  guilty  of  malpractice  in  otlice,  and 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Grand  Jury  to  make  presentments  thereof. 

See.  IV.  In  all  cases  when  in  the  discretiou  of  the  Magistrate  or  Magistrates,  it 
shall  be  deemed  best,  the  warrant  shall,  in  the  first  instance,  be  transmitted  to  His 
Excellency  the  Governor,  who  is  hereby  empowered  to  have  the  same  executed  by 
any  ofKcer  of  the  State,  Civil  or  MilHarv,  he  may  deem  the  peculiar  exigencies  of 
the  case  require.  In  which  event,  the  subsequent  proceedings  shall  be  as  herein- 
before provieed. 

Sec.  V.  In  all  cases  where  the  Governor  shall  be  informed,  that  any  still  or  stills 
ai'e  run  in  any  county  of  this  State  in  violation  of  law,  or  that  any  unlawlul  sale  or 
sales  are  made  from  any  such  still  or  stills,  and  the  Justices  and  other  county  ofli- 
cers have  failed  to  act,  he  shall  forthwith  send  an  officer  or  person  to  be  designated 
by  him  to  the  vicimige  who  shall  investigate  the  facts,  and  upon  being  satisfied  that 
shere  exists  probable  cause  for  the  charge  against  any  one  or  more  persons  iu  the 
county,  such  officer  or  person  shall  make  complaint  thereof  on  oath  to  any  Justice 
of  the  Peace  or  Justice  of  the  Inferior  Court  of  the  county,  or  to  the  Judge  of 
the  Superior  Court  of  fflfc  circuit  of  which  such  county  is  a  part,  or  iu  case  of  his 
absence,  to  any  Judge  of  ^e  S^uperior  Courts  of  this  State.  The  oflicers  thus  ap- 
plied to,  shall  thereupon  issue  a  warrant  for  tUu  seizure  of  the  still  or  stills,  ^s  a  nui- 
sance, and  the  arrest  of  the  person  '  iwning  or  engaged  iu  running  the 
same,  including  all  who  e»t/ier  owu  i  \;r<{  in  running  the  same,  so  far  as 
they  may  be  set  forth  in  the  aflidavit,  i./  i  ,  ■  Oe-  ascertained,  which  said  warrant 
shall  be  directed  to  any  lawful  officer  to  execute  and  return.  The  Governor  shall 
thereupon  cause  the  same  forthwith  to  be  executed  by  any  oliicer  of  the  State, 
Civil  or  Military,  he  may  deem  the  exigencies  of  the  case  require;  all  further  pro- 
ceedings shall  be  as  provided  in  the  preceding  sections,  only  that  in  the  event  the 
warrant  shall  be  issued  by  any  Judge  of  the  Superior  Courts,  shall  be  made  return- 
able before  him  on  a  day  to  be  named  therein,  at  the  Court  house  of  the  county  in 
which  it  is  charged  that  these  nuisance  exists;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Judge  to  attend  on  the  day  mentioned,  and  assisted  by  n  Jury  of  twelve  free  hold- 
ers make  the  summary  investigation  iu  the  preceding  sections  provided. 

Sec.  VI.  The  parties  owning  rfuch  distilleries  as  may  be  so  taken  and  held  by  the 
Government,  shall  be  entitlec  to  payment  for  the  same,  the  value  to  be  fixed  by 
the  Inferior  Court  in  accordance  with  the  statutes  now  in  force,  providing  compen- 
sation to  owners  iuv  stills  seized  by  the  Government. 

Assent  3d  to  Dec.  3,  1863. 


(No.  15.) 
An  Act  to  add  certain  sections  to  the  Penal  Code  of  Georgia. 

Sec.  I.  Be  it  enacted,  &c..  That  from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  Act,  any  white 
person  or  persons  who  shall  during  the  continuance  of  the  present  war  between  the 
Confederate  States  and  the  United  State,  communicate  or  have  intercourse  with  the 
enemy,  or  shall  aid  or  assist  any  other  white  person  or  persons,  to  hold  communica- 
tion or  have  intercourse  with  the  enemy  ;  shall  upon  conviction  of  the  same,  suffer  the 
punishment  of  death,  or  such  other  punishment  as  the  Judge  of  the  Superior  Couit 
may  inflict,  or  be  confined  in  the  Penitentiary  for  a  term  of  not  more  than  five  years  or 
less  than  two  years  as  the  jury  may  recommend  in  their  verdict ;  Provided,  that  the 
intercourse  or  communication  referred  to  in  the  above  section,  shall  not  be  construed 
to  mean  or  include  any  intercourse  or  communication  had  with  the  enemy,  by  order 
or  permission  of  the  proper  civil  or  miUtary  authorities;  proof  of  which  permission 
shall  rest  upon  flie  defendent;  and  Provided  further,  that  this  Act  shall  not  extend  to 
any  individual  whose  person  or  property  may  by  the  accidents  of  war  be  thrown  with- 
in the  lines  of  the  enemy. 

Sec.  II.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  any  slave  or  free  person  of  color  who  shall  go 
to  the  enemy  with  the  intenti6n  of  giving  them  information  of  any  kind,  shall  on  con- 


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riction  of  the  same,  suffer  such  punisbmont  as  the  Court  trying  said  offence,  may  in 
its  discretion  intlict ;  not  extending  to  life  or  liiub,  or  as  the  jury  may  recommend  by 
their  verdict. 

Sec.  III.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  any  slave  who  shall  leave  the  service  of  his 
owner  or  employeraud  go  over  to  the  enemy,  or  shall  leave  the  service  of  his  owner 
or  employer  with  the  imention  of  going  over  to  the  enemy,  or  shall  attempt  to  leave 
the  service  of  his  owner  or  employer,  for  the  purpose  of  going  ever  to  the  enemy, 
shall  on  conviction  of  the  same,  sutTer  such  punishment  as  the  Court  trying  said  offence, 
may  inflict,  in  its  discretion,  not  e.\tending  to  life  or  limb,  or  as  the  jury  may  recom- 
mend by  their  verdict ;  Provided,  that  this  Act  shall  not  apply  to  a  slave  who  volun- 
tarily and  bona  tide  returns  to  tiie  service  of  his  or  her  owner  or  employer. 

Sec.  IV'.  ]{;;  it  further  enacted,  Tliat  any  slave  or  free  person  of  color,  who  shall  by 
promises  of  freedom  or  liberty,  or  by  any  kind  of  incitement,  entice  or  induce  any 
slave  to  l(!ave  the  service  of  his  master,  or  shall  attempt  to  induce  or  entice  said  slave, 
shall  on  conviction  thereof  sutler  the  punishment  of  death,  or  such  other  puui-hment 
as  the  jury  may  recomiueiid  in  their  verdict,  and  in  case  of  no  such  recommendation, 
such  punishment  as  the  judge  presiding  in  his  dis(;retioii  may  inflict. 

Sec.  V.  All  conflicting  laws  are  hereby  repealed. 

Assented  to  Dec.  5,  18(53, 


(No.    16.) 

An  Act  to  amend  the  seven  hundred  and  eighty-sixth  section  of  the  Code  of  Georgia 

relative  to  taxing  defaulters, 

Sec.  1.  The  General  Assembly  of  this  State  do  enact.  That  the  seven  hundred 
and  eghty-sixth  section  of  the  Code  of  Georgia,  be  so  amended  as  to  provide  that  if  ^  • 
any  person  shall  fail  to  make  a  return  of  taxable  property  in  whole,  or  in  part  under  -^ 
the  tax  acts  in  force  in  this  State,  such  peri^ou  so  in  default,  .shall  be  double  taxed  for 
the  lirst  year's  default,  for  the  second  year's  default,  four  fold,  and  increasing  in  the 
same  ratio  each  year  until  a  return  is  made. 

Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  7, 1863. 


(No.  17.) 
An  Act  to  reorganize  the  jury  boxes  of  the  several  counties  in  this  State  and  to  point 

out  who  shall  be  liable  to  serve  on  juries. 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  &c.,  That  the  Justices  of  the  Inferior  Courts  of  the  sev- 
eral countie>i  of  this  State,  or  a  majority  of  them  shall  meet  at  their  respective  Court 
Houses  on  the  first  Monday  in  June  next,  or  so  soon  thereafter  as  practicable,  and 
cause  lists  of  the  names  of  all  the  citizens  of  such  county  over  the  age  of  twenty-one 
years,  who  are  not  physically  and  mentally  unable  to  serve  on  juries,  to  be  maileout 
aud  placed  in  the  jury  boxes  of  said  counties;  which  persons  shall  be  required  to  servo 
on  juries  regardless  of  age  or  profession,  except  practicing  Attorneys  at  Law.    ■ 

Sec.  II'  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  this  Act  sliall  be  of  force  from  its  passage  and 
shall  continue  until  the  termination  of  the  war. 

Sec.  III.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  7,  1863.  * 


(No.  18.) 


An  Act  to  extend  the  time  of  making  returns  of  the  children  entitled  to  the  benefit  of 

the  Educational  fund  of  Georgia  for  the  year  I8C3. 

Whereas,  the  Ordinary  of  each  county  in  this  State  is  now  required  by  law  to  re- 
port to  the  Governor  under  hand  and  seal,  annually  by  the  3d  Monday  in  November, 
the  whole  number  of  children  in  his  county  entitle(i  to  tlie  benefit  of  the  educational 
fund];  and  whereas,  it  is  further  provided,  that  if  any  county  neglects  to  present  a 
proper  return  to  the  Governor  by  the  time  prescribed,  it  losts  its  share  in  the  fund  ; 
and  whereas,  it  appears  that  a  numberof  counties  have  forwarded  their  returns  for 
18G3,  which  however  failed  to  arrive  before  the  3d  Monday  in  November  1S63,  whilst 
no  returns  have  as  yet  been  received  from  numerous  other  counties  of  the  State; 
and  whereas,  the  apportionment  directed  to  be  made  by  the  Governor,  has  not  yet 
been  completed,  and  it  is  manifestly  improper,  that  the  children  of  these  several  coun- 
ties shoulii  thus  be  deprived  of  the  benefits  of  this  fund  ip  the  present  condition  of  th» 
country,  if  practicable  to  prevent  it ;  therefore  for  rc^medy  thereof. 

Sec.  I.  Tlie  General  Assembly  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  the  time  for  making  the 
returns  required  by  the  law  for  the  yeaj  1S63,  be  extended  to  the  first  day  of  Jannary 
1^64,  and  that  the  Governor  shall  on  that  day  make  the  estimate  and  apportionment 
of  the  educational  fund  for  ISlvB. 

Sec.  II.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  in  all  cases  when  the  Ordinary  of  any  cownty 
may  have  removed  from  the  county,  or  be  in  the  militarv  service  of  the  country,  or 
from  any  cause  be  unable  or  fail  to  act,  it,  shall  and  may  be  lawful  for  the  apportion- 
ment and  distribution  of  the  educational  fund  to  be  made  upon  the  certified  return  of 
cither  the  Clerk  of  the  Superior  Court  or  Clerk  of  the  Inferior  Court  of  enoh  county. 


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Sec.  III.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  in  all  caBes,  when  the  enemy  shall  have  been 
in  any  county  of  the  State,  and  said  county  shall  have  thus  failed  to  make  return  with- 
in the  time  prescribed,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Governor  to  pay  over  to  the  Ordi- 
nary, or  upon  liis  failure  to  act,  to  the  Inferior  Court  of  such  county,  such  sum  as  he 
may  deem  equitable  and  just,  atieast  equal  in  amount  to  the  sum  drawn  the  next  pre- 
ceding year  by  such  county. 

Assented  to  Dec.  11, 1863.  * 


(No.   19.) 


An  Act  to  repulate  the  advertising  of  sales  by  Administrators,  Executors  and   Guar- 
dians and  for  other  purposes. 

Whereas  the  Code  of  Georgia  requires  Administrators,  Executors,  and  Guardians 
to  publish  the  notice  of  sales  they  are  authorized  to  make  in  the  Gazette  in  whicli 
the  county  advertisements  are  published,  and  whereas,  this  means  of  advertising  not 
unfrequently  fails  to  accomplisli  the  object  of  giving  publicity  to  those  sales  for  the 
reason  that  the  property  to  be  sold  may  be  located  in  some  county  remote  from  the 
cue  in  which  the  Gazette  aforesaid  is  published,  and  where  it  has  little  or  no  circula 
tion. 

Section  I.  Therefore  be  it  enacted,  &c.,  That  after  the  passage  of  this  Act  it  shall 
be  lawful  for  Administrators,  Executors,  and  Guardians  to  publish  the  notice  of  sales 
they  may  be  authorized  to  make,  for  tlie  time  prescribed  by  law  iu  any  newspaper  or 
Irazette  having  a  general  circulation  in  the  county,  where  the  property  to  be  sold  is 
located,  and  this  shall  be  deemed  a  full  and  sufficieut  notice  of  such  sales. 

Sec.  II.  Itepeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  11,1863. 


(No.    20.) 

An  Act  to  legalize  all  marriages  between  first  cousins,  which  have  been  contracted 
since  January  Ist.  1863. 

Section  1.  Be  it  enacted,  That  all  first  cousins,  who  have  heretofore  intermarried 
since  the  Ist  day  of  January,  1863,  are  hereby  relieved  from  any  penalties  they  may 
have  incurred  under  the  laws  of  this  State,  and  that  all  such  marriages  are  hereby 
declared  to  be  legal. 
>      Sec.  II    Kepeals  conflicting  laws. 


Assented  to  Dec.  11,  1863. 


-t 


(No.  21.) 

An  Act  to  provide  for  raising  revenue  tor  the  political  year  1864,   and  for  other  pur- 
poses. , 

Section  1.  Beit  enacted,  &c  ,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Governor,  and  Comn' 
troller  General,  in  assessing  the  tax  for  tlie  ensuing  year,  to  assess  and  have  collected 
such  per  cent  as  shall  be  siitlicient  to  raise  an  ainount  of  money,  added  to  the  other 
resources  of  the  State,  to  support  the  govenitaent  for  the  political  year  1864';  Provi-' 
ded,  that  tbe  amount  rai-sed,  shall  not  exceed  one  per  (sent  upon  the  value  of  the  tax- 
able property  of  the  State,  estimated  iu  Confederate  Treasurj'  notes. 

Sec.  II.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Governor  shall  be  authorized  to  raise  the 
money,  necessary  to  meet  tlie  appropriations,  till  the  tax  can  be  collected  by  negotia- 
ting a  temporary  loan,  for  the  amount  needed  to  be  jjaid  at  the  end  of  the  j'ear  in 
currency,  or  if  he  cannot  negotiate  such  loan,  he  may  have  issued  treasiuy  notes  of 
this  State,  payable  iu  Contederate  States  Treasury  notes, atthe  end  of  the  year;  and  the 
Confederate  notes,  when  collected  for  taxes,  shall  be  deposited  in  the  Treasury,  and 
remain  there,  to  redeem  said  notes,  so  issued  as  they  are  returned,  and  shall  not  be 
issued  or  used  for  any  wtiier purpose  ;  in  case  it  shall  become  necessary  for  the  Gov- 
ernor to  issue  such  notes,  he  may  direct  that  they  be  of  such  denomination,  and  for 
such  amounts  as  he  may  think  best. 

Sec.  III.  Beit  further  enacted,  That  of  the  property  of  all  officers  and  soldiers  in 
the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  for  three  years  or  during  the  war,  and  of  the 
two  regiments  of  State  troops,  now  enlisted  for  the  war ;  of  the  widows  and  orphans 
of  deceased  soldiers,  and  widows  and  other  females  who  have  no  husbands,  whose 
sons  are  in  the  army,  upon  whom  they  are  dependent  for  a  support;  of  all  disabled 
soldiers,  whether  rendered  so-^by  wounds,  sickness  or  other  cause,  while  in  said  ser- 
vice, the  sum  of  two  thousand  dollars,  be,  and  tiie  same  is  hereby  exempt  from  taxa- 
tion under  this  act ;  provided,  that  the  exemption  contained  in  this  act  shall  not  ap- 
ply to  Buch  persona,  whose  taxable  property  exceeds  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  dol- 
ilars. 


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Sec.  IV.  Beit  farther  enacted,  That  in  the  assessment  and  collection  of  the  gen- 
eral State  tax  for  1864,  no  Receiver  of  Tax  Ketarns  or  Tax  Collector  ehall  receive 
more  than  fifteen  hundred  dollars  cuinniissions  on  8ai<l  tax  ;  that  is  to  say,  on  all  di- 
gests that  net  ten  thousand  dollars  and  under  twenty  thousand  dollars,  not  more  than 
six  hundred  dollars  commissions  shall  be  allowed  to  each  officer ;  where  the  digests  ' 
net  over  twenty  thouttand  dollars  and  under  forty  thousand  dollai-s,  not  more  than 
eight  hundred  dollars  shall  be  allowed  to  each  officer;  that  where  the  digests  net 
over  forty  thousand  dollars  and  under  sixty  thousand  dollars,  not  more  than  one 
thousana  dollars  shall  be  allowed  to  each  ofiicer  ;  where  the  digests  net  over  sixty 
thousand  dollars  and  under  eighty  thousand  dollars,  theamo  jnt  allowed  each  olficer 
shall  not  exceed  twelve  hundred  dollars  ;  and  that  where  the  digests  net  over  eighty 
thousand  dollars,  fifteen  hundred  dollars,  andlio  niore  shall  be  allowed  to  each  offi- 
cer by  the  Comptroller  General;  and  that  in  allowing  these  officers  commissions,  the 
Comptroller  General  be  directed  to  allow  the  commissions  to  each  according  to  the 
schedule  in  the  Code,  until  the  limits  above  stated,  as  to  commisious,  are  reached 
after  which  the  limits  shall  be  the  whole  commissions  allowed  for  each  net  digest 
specified  in  this  section. 

Sec.  V.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  this  Act  shall  go  into  effect  from  and  imme- 
diately after  its  passage. 

Sec.  VI.  llcpeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  12, 1863. 


(No.  22.) 


An  Act  toauthorize  the  Governor  of  this  State  to  grant  a  license  for  the  manufacture 
of  Alcoliol  for  medicinal  and  mechanical  purposes. 

Section  1.  The  General  Assembly  do  enact.  That  from  and  after  the  passage  ot 
this  Act,  the  Governor  be,  and  he  IS  hereby  autliorized  to  grant  a  license  for  the 
manufacture  of  Alcohol  for  medicinal  and  mechanical  purposes,  under  the  restrictions 
hereinafterspecified,  to  any  person  who  shall  make  application  for  the  same  and 
comply  with  all  the  provisions  of  this  Act;  provided,  that  the  alcohol  so  authorized  to 
be  distilled,  shall  not  be  sold  for  an  amount  exceeding  seventy-five  per  cent  profit 
upon  the  actual  cost  of  the  same. 

.Sec.  II.  And  be  it  furtherenacted,  That  ii^no  case  shall  a  license  be  granted  for 
the  purposes  afortisaid,  until  the  applicant  has  made  it  satisfactorily  appear  to  the 
Governor,  that  he  is  prepared  to  produce  alcohol  of  good  quality;  which  license  shall 
not  be  granted  for  a  longer  time  than  twelve  mouths,  aud  maybe  renewed  at  the  dis- 
cretion of  the  Governor. 

Sec.  Ill,  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  before  a  license  shall  be  granted,  the  ap- 
plicant shall  take  and  sub.-cribe  an  oatli,  that  he  will  not  make  spirits  other  than  al- 
cohol by  himselt,  his  agent  or  servants  ;  that  he  will  not  make  more  than  the  number 
of  gallons  allowed  by  the  terms  of  the  license,  that  he  will  not  make  it  for  sale  to 
speculfttors,  and  that  he  will  not  abuse  the  privileges  granted  under  this  Act,  or  vio- 
late any  of  it.s  provisions  iu  any  respect  whatever,  and  shall  give  bond  and  security 
to  the  Governor,  iu  the  sum  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  ;  that  he  will  faithfully 
observe  the  requirements  of  this  Act. 

Sec.  IV.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  for  a  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  Act,  the  person  so  violating  may  be  indicted  and  tried  for  false  swearing,  and 
on  conviction  be  punished  in  the  same  manner. 

Sec.  V.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  for  any  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this 
Act,  the  Governor  may  institute  suit  on  said  bond,  and  should  recovery  be  had,  the 
sum  to  be  applid  to  the  fund  for  the  relief  of  soldiers'  fannlies. 

Sec.  VI.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Governor  be,  and  he  is  hereby  an- 
thorizeil,  whenever  it  is  made  appear  tohim  that  the  privileges  of  this  Act  are  abused 
to  withdraw  from  the  pei-son  abusing  the  terms  of  this  Act,  said  license;  which  with- 
drawal shall  not  prevent  prosecution  lor  false  swearing,  or  suit  on  the  bond  as  beiore 
provided  for  ;  provided  further,  that  the  Inferior  Court  of  any  of  the  counties  in  this 
State  may  with  theconsentof  the  Governor,  contract  for  such  quantity  for  medicinal  use 
in  the  county,  itethe  (rovernor  may  deem  necessarj',  and  all  quantities  made  for  the 
Confederate  government  shall  be  estimated  as  part  of  the  one  million  of  gallons  al- 
lowed hy  law. 

Sec.  VII  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  12,  1SC3. 


(No.  23.; 


An  Act  to  authorize  and  empower  the  Ordinaries  of  the  several  counties  in  this  State 
to  pay  over  to  the  Inferior  Courts  any  sui  jdus  of  funds  in  their  hands  belongirg  to 
the  Educational  fund,  for  the   benefit  of  the   indijient   families  of  soldiers  now  in 
the  military  service,  or  who  may  have  died  in  the  service. 
Section.  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  it  shall 


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be  ItLwTnl  for  the  Ordinaries  of  the  several  countieB  in  this  State  tOt  pay  over  to  the 
Inferior  Courts  of  tlieir  respective  connties  any  surpltiH  of  fr.ndu  in  their  hands  be- 
lon^ng  to  the  educfltional  lund,  iiot  appropriated  for  the  benefit  of  the  poor  children 
of  the  county,  and  that  said  snrplus  wlien  paid  over  tdmll  be  subject  to  disbursement 
by  the  Inferior  Courts  for  the  relief  ol  the  indigent  families  of  Kuldiera  now  in  service 
or  who  may  have  died  in  the  service. 

Sec.  II.  Kepeals  couilicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Doc.  12,  1863, 


{No.  24.) 


An  Act  to  cancel  certain  portions  of  the  Georgia  Treasury  Notes  lately  issued,  by 

issuing  Treasury  Certificates  of  Deposit,  and  for  other  purposes. 

Whereas,  His  Excellency  the  Governor,  in  his  late  annual  message,  represents 
that  bankers,  capitalists  and  others  holding  Georgia  Treasury  Notes,  desire  to  have 
the  same  cancelled  by  receiving  in  lieu  of  said  notes,  Treasury  Certificates  of  De- 
posit for  larger  amounts,  binding  the  State  to  the  same  obligations  contained  in  the 
face  of  said  notes. 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  Georgia,  That  upon  the  pre- 
sentation to  the  State  Treasurer  of  five  thousand  dollars,  or  any  larger  amount,  of 
Georgia  Treasury  Notes,  by  any  holder  who  may  denire  the  same  to  be  cancelled  by 
the  issue  of  Treasury  Certificates  of  Deposit,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Treasurer 
to  receive  and  give  Certificates  of  Deposit  in  sums  of  not  less  than  five  thousand 
dollars  for  the  same  ;  said  Treasury  Certificates  to  be  made  payable  in  the  same 
manner  as  is  expressed  on  the  face  of  the  Treasury  Notes  thus  cancelled. 

See.  II.  Beit  further  enacted.  That  upon  the  issue  of  said  Treasury  Certificates, 
they  shall  be  taken  to  the  Comptroller  General,  who  shall  register  and  countersign 
the  same.  The  registry  shall  contain  the  date  of  issue,  the  nnraber,  and  amount  of 
eacli  certificate  issued. 

Sec.  III.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  upon  said  Treasury  Notes  being  thas  taken 
up,  each  number  shall  be  marked  "redeemed  by  certificate"  in  the  registry  book  in 
the  Comptroller  General's  office;  and  once  in  every  two  months,  the  Treasurer  and 
Comptroller  General  shall,  in  the  presence  of  the  Governor,  burn  said  notes  thus 
cancelled;  and  his  Excellency  will  cause  the  proceedings  to  be  entered  upon  the  mi- 
nutes of  the  Executive  Department ;  and  the  Treasurer  and  Comptroller  General 
are  hereby  directed,  in  their  general  reports,  to  give  the  amount  of  Treasury  Notes 
thus  cancelled,  and  the  am ■>unt  of  Treasury  Certificates  thus  i.sfsned  ;  provided,  that 
the  cancelling  of  these  notes  shall  not  be  reported  among  the  receipts  and  disburse- 
ments at  the  Treasury  ;  provided  further,  that  the  parties  who  hold  said  Treasury 
Notes  shall  pay  all  expenses  of  printing  and  carrying  into  effect  the  provisions  of  this 
act. 

Sec.  IV.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  14tb  Dec,  1863. 


(No.  25.) 
An  Act  (o  alter  and  change  the  oath  of  tax-payers  in  this  State. 

Section  1.  The  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  from 
and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  in  addition  to  the  oath  now  required  of  all  tax-pay- 
ers of  this  State,  they  shall  be  required  to  state,  under  oath,  whether  or  not  they 
have  refused  to  take  Confederate  Treasury  Notes  in  satisfaction  of  any  or  all  claims 
due  them. 

Sec.  H.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14, 1863. 


(No.  26.) 
An  Act  to  alter  and  amend  an  act  entitled  an  act  to  prevent  the  unnecessary  eon- 
sumption  of  grain  by  distillers  and  manufacturers  of  spirituous  liquors  in  Georgia, 
approved  Nov.  22d,  1862  ;  also,  to  alter  and  amend  an  act  supplementary  to  the 
said  recited  act,  assented  to  December  11th,  1862,  and  for  other  purposes. 
Whereas,  In  the  fifth  section  of  the  above  first  recited  act.  it  is  provided,  that  no 
person  distilling  under  any  license  authorized  by  that  act,  shall  sell  any  whisky  or 
any  other  spirituous  liquors  for  more  than  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents  per  gallon,  nor 
alcohol  at  more  than  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  gallon,  under  the  penalties  reci- 
ted in  said  act;  and  whereas,  since  the  passage  of  said  act,  from  the  greatly  increas- 
ed and  increasing  value  of  graiu  and  labor,  of  ail  implements,  machinery  and  arti- 
cles used  in  distilling,  as  well  as  on  account  of  the  lieavy  taxes  imposed  by  both 
the  Confederate  and  State  goveniments  upon  distillers,  the  above  named   prices 
have  become  wholly  inadequate  and  unremunerntive  to  persons  who  have  hereto- 
fore contracted,  or  may  hereafter  contract,  to  distil  whisky  or  alcohol  for  the  Confed- 
eiate  government;  therefore,  for  remedy  whereof, 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  &c..  That  all  that  part  of  the  said  fifth  section  of  said 
act  of  the  22d  November,  1862  wliice  restricts  the  price  of  whisky  to  one  dollar  and 
fifty  cents,  and  the  price  of  alcohol  to  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  gallon,  be,  and 
the  same  is  hereby  repealed  ;  and  that  the  Confederate  government  may,  by  its  oflG- 


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cttt  or  agents,  eontnict  fortite  distillation  in  this  State  of  whiskj  and  alcohol  for  tba 
n««  of  th«  Confederate  government,  at  such  price. or  prices  «b  may  be  ajfreed  open 
by  the  contracting  parties ;  and  the  said  government  may,  by  its  olScers  or  agents, 
increase  the  price  to  be  paid  for  whisky  and  alcohol  under  contracts  heretofore  made, 
or  hereafter  to  be  made,  to  distil  whiskj  or  alcohol  for  said  government,  to  any  ex- 
tent which  may  be  agreed  upon  ;  provided  such  contract  price  shall  not  exceed  the 
prices  for  whisky  and  alcohol  respectively  fixed  from  time  to  time  in  the  schedule  of 
prices  established  by  the  commissioners  lor  Georgia,  appointed  undea  the  impress- 
ment act  of  Congress. 

Sec.  II.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That,  hereafter  in  ifsuing  licenses  for  the  distilla- 
tion of  whisky  or  alcohol  for  the  use  of  the  Confederate  government,  authorized  to 
be  issiieu  by  the  above  recited  acts  as  altered  and  amended  by  this  net,  his  Excel- 
lency the  Governor  may  issue  the  same,  regardless  of  the  price  or  prices  to  be  re- 
ceived by  the  j)»rty  or  parties  applying  for  such  license  or  licenses ;  provided,  such 
price  or  prices  d»e8  not  exceed  those  fixed  by  the  commissioners  under  the  impress- 
ment act  of  Congress,  as  set  forth  in  the  first  section  of  this  act;  and  provided  fur- 
ther, that  nothing  iu  this  act  shall  be  so  construed  ns  to  authorize  or  require  the  Gov- 
ernor of  this  State  to  issue  licennes  for  the  distillation  in  Georgia,  for  ttie  use  of  the 
Confederate  gov  ernmentj  of  more  than  one  million  of  gallons  of  spirituous  liqnors  of 
all  kinds,  including  alcohol. 

Sec.  III.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  all  and  any  such  person  or  persons  who  may 
be  at  any  time  distilling  under  Ruy  contract  with  the  Confederate  govemment,  who 
shall  at  any  time  make  or  sell  or  otherwise  dispose  of  any  whisky,  brandy,  or  other 
spirituous  liquors,  the  product  of  his  or  their  still  or  stills,  on  private  account,  or  to 
any  other  person  or  corporation  or  partnership,  or  who  may  ship  from  his  or  their 
distillery  any  such  product  thereof,  other  than  to  the  government  or  its  authorized 
agent,  he  or  they  so  offending  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon 
conviction  thereof,  shall  be  puuifhed,  in  the  dincretion  of  the  Court,  by  fine  not  less 
than  one  thousand  dollars  for  each  and  every  such  offense  so  committed,  or  impris- 
onment iu  the  common  jailof  the  county, or  both  ;  and  any  and  all  officers  and  agents 
of  the  Confederate  government  who  shall  consent  to  such  sale,  disposal  or  .^ihipment 
shall  be  held  and  deemed  a  principal  in  the  fir!<t  degree,  and  upon  conviction  thereof, 
shall  be  punished  by  like  fine  nndini])ri8onment. 

Sec.  IV.  And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid.  That  this  act  shall 
go  into  operation  and  take  effect  iVoni  and  immediately  after  its  passage. 

Sec.  V.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assedted  to  Dec.  14, 1863. 


(No.  27.) 

An  Act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  an  not  to  authorize  all  volunteeis  and  other  troors 

in  the  service  from  this  State,  to  vote  at  all  elections,  ■without   reference   to  tie 

place  where  they  may  be  in  service   at  the  time  of  such  election,  and  for  other 

purposes,  assented  to  December  14th,  ISG'J. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  Georgia  do  enact.  That  from  and  after  the 
passage  of  this  act,  the  above  recited  act  be  amended  by  adding  the  following  sec- 
tions thereto :  That  said  commissioned  officers  so  entitled  to  hold  said  elections,  shall, 
before  they  proceed  to  hold  the  same,  subscribe  the  following  statement  in  writing  ; 
(First  state  the  regiment,  battalion  or  company.)  Each  and  bot!i  of  us  do  declaio 
upon  honor,  that  we  will  faithfully  superintend  this  day's  election  ;  that  we  are  com- 
missioned officers  of  the  State  or  Confederate  government  (state  the  regiment,  bat- 
talion or  company) ;  that  we  will  makea  just  and  true  retum  thereof;  that  we  wiJ 
not  knowingly  permit  anyone  to  vote,  unless  we  believe  him  entitled  to  do  so  accor- 
ding to  the  laws  of  Georgia  ;  nor  knowingly  prohibit  any  one  from  voting  who  is  en- 
titled by  law  to  vote  ;  and  we  will  not  divulge  for  whom  any  vote  waa  cast,  unlefs 
called  on  under  the  law  to  do  so. 

Sec.  II.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  itshall  be  the  duty  of  said  superintendents  to 
forward  a  copy  of  said  statement  with  the  copies  of  the  tally  sheet  nndilst  of  voters, 
and  the  same  shall  be  taken  in  lieu  of  the  oath  now  retiuired  by  law  to  be  taken  by 
superintendents  of  such  elections. 

Sec.  III.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14, 1863. 


(No.  28.) 

An  Act  to  extend  the  time  for  the  collection  of  taxes  in  the  county  of  Walker,  and 
to  provide  a  guard  fortheTax  Collector  in  t^aid  county,  acd  all  other  counties  simi- 
larly situated. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  Georgia  do  enact.  That  the  time  for  the  Tax 
Collector  of  Walker  county  and  all  other  counties  similarly  situated,  to  make  his  col- 
lections and  final  settlements  with  the  Comptroller  General,  be,  and  the  same  is  here- 
by extended  to  the  Ist  <lny  of  Marcli,  A.  D.  1S64 

Sec.  II.  Be  it  further  L-nacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid.  That  whenever  it  ."hall 
appear  necessary  for  thi^rotcction  of  the  Tax  Collector  of  said  county,  in  the  dis- 
charge of  his  duty,  the  Governor  be,  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  detail  all  such 
officers  and  men  from  any  forces  in  the  service  of  Georgia  as  may  1^  necessary  to 
act  as  a  guard  for  said  officer ;  and  iu  all  audi  cases  as  may  appear  eminently  neces- 


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sary  to  the  said  Tax  Collector,  shall  be  authorized  to  gninmons  one  or  more  men  to 
act  as  guards  during  the  contiiiuuiice  oftho  danger:  in  which  evcDt,  the  parties  so 
actiuf,'  shall  receive  the  same  pay  iis  if  in  Hcvrice  in  either  of  the  Georgia  Ki.-gimeut8, 
to  be  paid  upon  warrant  of  his  Excellency  the  Governor,  out  of  the  military  fund  of 
the  State. 
Asaentedto  Dec.  U,  1863. 


(No.   29.) 


An  Act  to  change  the  rank  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General  of  this  State,  and 

for  otlier  purposes. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  from  and  after  the 
passage  of  this  act,  the  rank  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspectoi-fGeneral  of  this  State, 
snail  be  that  of  a  Major  General. 

Sec.  II.  Kepeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14,  1863. 


(No.  30.) 
Au  Act  to  amend  the  Habeas  Corpvis  laws  of -this  State. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  wlien 
any  per.son  shall  apply  for  the  writ  of  Habeas  Corpus  to  any  Judge  of  the  Superior 
or  Justice  of  the  Inferior  Courts,  whose  duty  it  is  to  grant  said  writ,  such  Judge  or 
Justice  80  refusing  to  grant  the  same,  shall  forfeit  to  the  party  aggrieved  the  sum  of 
tweuty-five  hundred  dollars,  to  be  recovered  in  any  Court  of  law  in  this  State  having 
jurisdiction  of  the  same. 

Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  14th  Dec,  18G3. 


(No.  31.J 
An  Act  to  levy  and  collect  a  tax  on  the  net  income  and  profits  of  all  persons  and  cor- 
porate bodies,  and  net  profits  of  all  i)frsons  making  incomes  by  purchase  or  sale 
of  any  property,  real  or  personal ;  upon  the  net:  income  of  all  Express  Companies, 
Railroad  Companies  not  exempt  by  their  charters  from  taxation,  Insurance  Com- 
panies, Brokers,  Auctioneers,  all  persons  ecgfiged  in  the  manufacture  of  iron  and 
nalt,  and  cotton  dealers,  and  upon  all  profits  arising  from  the  sale  of  goods,  wares 
and  merchandise,  groceries  and  provisions  ;  also  on  the  income  or  profits  of  all  per- 
sons and  corporate  bodies  engaged  in  the  nianul'acture  of  cotton  and  woolen  goods  ; 
in  the  tanning  and  sale  of  leather,  and  tlie  manufacture  and  sale  of  any  articles 
made  thereof;  and  in  the  distillation  and  sale  of  alcohol  or  spirituous  liquors  from 
grain  of  any  kind,  or  from  any  other  article  ;  and  to  appropriate  the  same,  and  to 
punish  all  persons  as  may  fail  to  give  in  their  incme  or  net  profits,  and  for  other 
purposes.   ' 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  Georgia  do  enact.  That  all  persona  and  bod- 
ies corporate  in  this  State,  all  persons  making  income  by  purchase  or  sale  of  any 
property  real  or  personal,  all  Keepers  of  hotels,  inns  and  livery  Stables,  Express 
Companies,  Rail  Road  Companies  not  exempt  by  their  charter  irom  taxation,  Insu- 
rance Companies,  Brokers,  Au(^tioneers  ;  all  jiersons  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
Salt,  all  persons  engaged  in  the  sale  of  giM-.Js,  Wares  and  Merchandise,  Groceries  and 
Provisidiis :  all  perw>ns  and  bodies  corporiite  engaged  in  the  manufacture  and  sale  of 
cotton  and  woolen  goods,  in  the  tanning  and  sale  of  leather,  and  in  the  manufacture 
and  sale  of  any  article  made  thereof,  and  all  person.-;  engaged  in  the  distillation  or  sale 
of  alcohol  orspiritous  liquors  fiom  grain  of  any  kind,  or  from  any  other  article  when 
they  make  a  return  of  their  taxable  property  shall  make  a  return  under  oath  of  the 
net  income  or  profits  which  he,  she  or  they  may  have  made  respectively  in  the  sale  6r 
manufacture  andsaleof  any  of  the  articles  above  enumerated,  and  in  the  conducting  of 
any  of  the  busine.=8  aforesaid,  from  the  1st  day  of  April  1863,  to  the  1st  day  of  April 
1864,  over  and  above  8  per  cent  on  the  capital  employed  in  his  business. 

Sec.  II.  Be  it  turther  enacted.  That  in  allcases  when  the  net  incomes  and  profits 
over  and  above  the  eight  per  cent  on  the  capital  stock  so  excepted  as  aforesaid,  are 
ten  thousand  dollars  or  less,  the  tax  shall  be  five  dollars  for  every  hundred  dollars;, 
upon  all  sums  not  less  than  §10,000  nor  more  than  $15,000,  7  1-2  dollars  upon  every 
$100;  upon  all  sums  not  less  than  $1.5,008  nor  more  than  $20,000,  $10  upon  every  $100 
upon  all  sums  not  less  than  $20,000  nor  more  than  $30,000  $12,.50  upon  every  $100  ;; 
upon  all  sums  not  less  than  $30,000  nor  more  than  $.50,000,  $15  upon  every  $100  ;  up- 
on all  sums  not  less  than  $50,000  nor  more  than  $75,000,  $17.50  upon  everv  $100  ;  up- 
on allsums  not  less  than  $75,000  nor  more  than  $100,000  !|20  upon  every  $100  ;  upon 
all  sums  of  $100,000  and  over,  $25  upon  every  $100. 

Sec.  III.  That  if  any  person  (or  bodies  corporate)  embraced  in  the  first  section  of 
this  Act  shall  fail  or  refuse  to  make  a  return  of  hia,  her,  or  their  profits  made  or  re- 
alized as  aforesaid,  he,  she  or  they  shall  he  held  to  be  guilty  of  a  high  misdemeanor, 
and  on  conviction  thereof  shall  be  confined  at  hard  labor  in  the  Penitentiary  for  any 
time  not  less  than  one  year,  nor  more  than  five  years;  and  the  Receiver  of  Tax  lie 
turns  assess  a  double  tax  on  all  taxable  income  of  such  delinquent  as  far  as  he  may 
be  able  to  ascertain  upon  diligent  enquiry. 


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Sec.  IV.  That  if  the  officers  of  any  body  corporate,  whose  duty  it  is  to  make  the 
proper  returns  required  by  the  provtsiyns  of  this  Act,  shall  fail  or  refuse  to  make  idst 
and  proper  returns  of  all  profits  or  net  incomes  made  by  eaid  corporation,  or  shall 
eutt:r  aud  change  tlie  profits  iu  the  extension  of  sfuck  and  not  as  profits  or  other- 
wise, so  us  to  defeat  the  object  of  this  Act,  such  oflicer  or  officers  sootfendinp  shall  be 
guilty  of  a  i)ii,'li  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  confined  at  hard 
labor  in  the  Penitentiary  ftir  any  time  not  less  than  two  nor  more  than  six  years,  and 
that  the  said  Receiver  of  Tax  Returns  shall  assess  a  double  tax  on  all  taxable  in- 
coim-sof  such  delin(iuent,asfur  as  he  may  be  able  to  ascertain  the  amount  upoti 
diligent  enquiry. 

Sec.  V.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  several  Tax  Receivers  of  this  State,  to 
prosecute  all  partie.'s  who  shall  fail  upon  orncglect  to  give  in  tiieir  ta.\  as  required  by 
the  provisions  of  this  Act,  or  who  tiiey  niay  have  good  reason  to  beliewj  Lave  not 
done  the  same  in  good  faith. 

Sec.  VI,  Itepoais  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14,  1S63. 


(\o.  32.) 
All  Act  to  increase  the  per  diem  pay  of  school  teachers  for  children  entitled  to  the- 

bonefitof  the  poor  school  fund  of  this  State, 

Sec.  I  I5e  it  enacted,  &.c.,  That  from  andafterttie  pa.«snge  of  t^iis  Act,  the  Edu- 
cational Uourd  of  the  se>'eral  counties  in  this  State,  be,  and  they  are  hereby  author- 
ized to  allow  the  te;icl)ers  of  children  entitled  to  the  benefits  of  the'poor  .school  lund, 
the  same  pctr  diem  pay  for  teaching  suid  children,  us  is  charged  by  the  same  tea<;her.'<' 
for  oilier  chihlren  pursuing  similar  branches  of  study  ;  provided'  said  charge  shalL 
not  exceed  si.\teen  cents  per  day.  f 

Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  14  Dec.  18C3. 


(No.   33) 

An  Act  to  alter  and  cliange  the  place  of  holding  the  Superior  and  Inferior  Ccuiis  of 
the  county  of  Glynn. 

Whereas,  the  Cciirt  Ilonse  of  said  county  is  untenable  on  account  of  the  proximi- 
ty of  the  enemy  at  Brunswick, 

'  Section  1.  lie  it  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  cf  Georgia.  That  from  and  after 
the  passage  of  this  Act,  the  Superior  snid  Inferior  Courts  ot  the  county  of  Glynn, 
siiall  be  held  at  such  place  as  the  Inferior  Court  may  seleet. 

Sec.  II.  Repeals  couflicliug  laws.  • 

A-sented  to  14  Dec,  1S63. 


(No.  34.) 

Ai  .A.ct  to  define  and  punish  the  ofTenceof  skinning  cows  or  any  other  kiifd  of  stock 
caltle,  sheep  or  g'lats,  and  refusing  to  pay  for  the  hides. 

Sec'ion  1.  lie  it  enacted,  &c..  That  from  and  after  the  pas.sage  of  this  Act,  \t. 
shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  in  this  State,  to  skin  any  dead  cow,  or  any  other  k(a<l 
of  stockcatlle,  sUeep,  or  goats,  without  consent  uf  the  owner,  agent,  or  overseer,  oJ 
said  stock  or  stocks  of  said  cattle  that  dies  not  belong  to  him,  her.  or  them,  witliont 
coeouuting  to  the  owner  or  owners  llieieof  for  the  skin,  when  thereunto  demauded, 
liUil  in  all  cases  when  any  pers(m  or  persons  shall  have  been  engaged  in  skinning  any 
cow,  or  other  kind  of  stock,  cattle,  sheep,  or  goats,  aud  shall  refuse  upon  demand  of 
the  owner  thereof  or  his  agent,  or  overseer,  to  pay  the  reasomible  value  of  the  skin, 
he,  she,  or  thoy  shall  be  suliject  to  indietinent,  and  upon  conviction,  shall  be  fined 
for  each  and  every  ofi'ence  in  the  discretion  of  the  Court,  not  less  than  fift;,i  doUair  . 
nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  or  imprisoned  in  the  common  jail  of  the"  coa«£r\- 
where  the  conviction  takes  place,  not  more  thau  thirty  days. 

Sec-  Repeals  courticting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14,  1863. 


V- 


",      (No.  30.) 

An  Act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  an  act  to  autliOHze  Guardiacs,  Trosfeeo,  Executors 
and  Administrators  to  invest  in  Confederate  bonds  and  inlands  and  negroes,  assen- 
ted to  Dec.  16th,  1861,  ° 

Section  1.  The  General  Assembly  of  Georgia  do  enact,.  That  the  Act  to  authori-ie- 
Guardians.  Trustees,  Executors  and  Administrators  t.>  -ifavest  in  Confeiierate  bonds, 
and  in  lands  and  negroes,  assented  to  D(  c.  ICth.  ISlU,  is  hereby  amended  as  follaws  ' " 
in  addition  to  the  investment  in  said  Act  authorized,  Guaidians,  E.xecutors,  Adminis- 1 
trators  and  Tiustees  are  hereby  authorized  to  invest  in  interest  bearing  treasury 
notes  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  all  such  bonds  as  may  have  been  and  may.here-  . 
after  be  issued  by  the  Confederate  States  and  by  the   State  of  Georgia;  provided., 
that  before  making  any  such  investment  as  in  said  Act  allowed,  and  aftin  this  Act  ijk 


IS 

flowed,  the  Eliecnfor,  AiIiirinSBtrator.  Gaardian  orTrneteeBO  dosiringr  tobvest,  Bfcall 
'first  make  applicatiou  to  the  Judge  of  tlie  Superior  Co;irt  of  the  circuit  in  which  he 
resides,  or  in  case  of  theabaeueeof  such  Judge  from  the  State,  the  Jod;;e  of  any  od- 
. joioiitg  circuit,  fi>r  leave  to  do  so,  vrberoupou  the  Judge  is  hereby  autliorized  to  hear 
tetttiiBODy  and  argument  either  at  terra  tiuie  or  at  chambers  in  vacation,  an  to  which 
of  the. inveHtmenis  is  the  best  for  the  interest  of  the  ward,  heirs,  legatees  or  eeitui 
guiirust,  nod  shall  in  his  order  direct  in  wiiat  securities  or  property  the  proposed  in- 
vei4ments  shall  be  made;  and  whenever  sucli  investment  shall  be  made  in  bonds  or 
interest  bearing  Treasury  notes  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  or  bonds  of 
the  State  of  Georgia,  the  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian  or  Trustee  so  investing, 
fchall  within  twelve  months  thereafter  make  a  legal  return  thereof,  in  which  he  shall 
>et  forth  the  prices  paid,  the  time  of  the  purchase  and  the  name  of  the  seller;  and 
Trhenever  the  investment  shall  have  been  made  in  land  and  negroes  or  other  property, 
iieeballset  forth  a  particular  description  thereof,  stating  price,  and  from  whom  and 
when  piirchased;  all  wliich  shall  be  entered  as  record  by  the  Ordinary,  subject  to  lik« 
sQ-atiuy  and  exceptions  with  other  returns  of  persons  acting  in  any  of  the  above 
loentioned  capacities. 
Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws.  < 

Assented  to  Dec.  14,  1863. 


(Xo.  36.) 


An  Act  to  provide  for  ths  burial  of  Paupers  in  this  State. 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted,  &c..  That  whenever  any  free  white  jierson  shall  die  in 
J.ois  State,  whoso  family  and  immediate  kindred  are  indigent  and  unable  to  provide 
f(>r  the  decent  interment  of  such  daceased  persons,  and  where  the  deceased  is  a  pan- 
T<?Ti>ad  destitute  of  the  nieaua  of  paying  for  a  decent  interment,  tlie  Justices  of  the 
Wftiior  Court  of  the  county  wherr"  said  death  shall  occur,  are  authorized  and  it  is 
lUEwie  their  duty  in  case  there  be  any  pauper  funds  belonginc;  to  the  county  unexpen- 
de(i,  to  appropriate  a  sufficient  amount  tliL-reof,  to  providea  .lecent  interment  for  such 
di&ceased  pauper  ;  or  to  re-emburse  such  persons  as  may  have  expended  the  same 
ivolTantavily  after  the  passage  of  this  Act;  said  appropriation  not  to  exceed  what  is 
necessary  to  defray  the  ordinary  funeral  expenees  of  p':irsons  dying  ia  humble  circum- 
aSmjces  in  this  State. 

Sec.  11.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

AKented  tiJ»Dee.  14,  1863. 


I 


(No.  3r.) 

Aa  jiet  to  preveutthe  illegal  inipressiiiiiut  of  property  iu  this  State,  and  to  punish 
for  the  same. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  if  any 
person  claiming  to  act  as  theofiiceror  agent  of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  impress 
Hbe  property  of  any  citisenor  resident  of  this  State  contiaiy  to  the  Act  of  Congress 
of  ilie  Confederate  States  commonly  called  the  impressment  Act,  or  if  any  person 
sliaJi  claim  to  be  an  officer  or  agent  of  the  sai  1  Confederate  States,  with  authority  to 
jnske  impressment  of  property  under  s-iid  impressment  act,  and  who  sliall  not  have 
savh  authority  and  wiio  shall  impress  the  property  of  any  citizen  or  resident  of  this 
Jjtate;  such  person,  or  offiiier,  or  agent  so  offeailing,  shall  upon  conviction,  be  pnn- 
isbeii  by  confinement  and  labor  in  the  Penitentiary  for  a  term  of  not  less  than  one 
vear  nor  longer  than  ten  years  ;  provided  this  Act  shall  not  apply  to  any  officer  or 
a^iil  of  the  Confederate  States,  who  is  in  good  faith  obeying  the  order  of  his  superior 
officer,  duly  authorized  by  law  to  give  sucli  order. 

See.  II.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  if  any  person  or  persons  claiming  to  be  the 
Egeot  or  agents  of  the  Confederate  government,  shall  seize  or  impress,  or  attempt  to 
seize  or  impress  private  property  for  public  use,  shall  fail  or  refuse  to  exhibit  his 
■written  authority  for  so  doing,  and  give  a  true  copy  of  the  same  to  the  owner,  or  oth- 
erperson  having  charge  of  said  property  upon  application,  such  person  so  failing  or 
sefa'jJDg,  shall  be  deemed,  held,  and  considered  as  having  no  legal  authority,  except 
impressing  officers  of  armies  in  the  field  ;  provided,  that  the  failure  of  the  impressing 
€»!i5certo  exhibit  his  authority  or  furnish  a  copy  thereof,  upon  demand,  shall  only  op- 
4arateas  prima  facia  evidenceof  want  of  authority,  and  shall  not  conclude  such  par- 
4j  irtma  proving  his  authority  upon  the  trial. 

Sfcc.  III.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  this  Act  shall  take  effect,  and  be  operatiT«, 
Jjrcffla  nnd  immediately  after  its  passage. 
See.  IV.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Aflse-Bted  to  Dec.  14,  1863. 


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(No. :».) 

An  Act  to  re-organize  the  Militia  of  the  State  of  Georgia,  and  for  other  purposes  • 

Section  I. 'Beit  enActed.  &.c.,  That  each  Senatorial  District  in  this  State  shall 
«oiistltute  a  separate  Military  District,  and  it  siiall  be  the  duty  of  the  Governor,  a^i 
80on  as  practicable  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  to  appoint  an  Aid-de-Camp  with 
the  rank  of  Colonul,  in  each  district,  who  shall  be  charged  with  the  duties  herein- 
after set  forth. 

Sec.  II.  Be  it  further  enactod,  That  within  four  days  after  being  notified  of  bit 
-appointment,  it  shall  be  the  duty  ot  each  Aid-de-Cunip  to  commence  the  enrollment 
of  all  free  white  males  resident  in  his  District,  wlio  are  or  shall  be  of  the  age  of 
sixteen  years,  and  net  ov«^r  sixty  years,  and  also  tliooe  who  shall  from  time  to  tim<» 
arrive  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  or  who  may  come  to  rende  within  the  District, 
except  those  who  shall  actually  be  in  the  Armv  or  Navy  of  the  Confederate 
States,  or  in  the  State  service.  The  enrollment  !<hnll  be  by  Company  Distiicts,and 
shall  sliow  the  a?e,  occupation  and  nativity  of  each  person  enrolled,  tlie  number  of 
the  Company  District  in  which  he  may  reside,  and  if  any  exemption  is  claimed,  the 
ground  of  it. 

For  the  purpose  of  facilitating  the  enrollment,  the  Aid-de>Camp  shall  be  anthnr- 
ized  to  employ  with  the  approval  of  the  Governor,  three  or  more  assistants  for  each 
««)uuty,  who  shall  receive  forthtnr  services,  compensation,  at  the  rate  ot  fifty  cents 
for  each  per.«on  enrolled  by  them  ;  but  they  shall  not  be  exempt  from  service  under 
this  act,  in  consequence  of  their  being  such  a.'<sistiiuts.  For  a  failure  faitlifnlly  to 
discharge  their  duty,  the  Assii^'ant  EnroUingotficers  shall  be  liable  to  removal  by  the 
Governor,  and  if  without  siiflii  :ent  excuse  to  be  judged  of  by  the  Governor,  shall  be 
liable  furtiier  to  forfeiture  of  all  eompei^ation. 

Sec.  III.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Aid-de- 
Camp,  within  ten  days  after  the  enrollment  has  been  completed  in  his  district,  to 
forward  complete  lists,  in  dupHcate,of  the  enrollment  in  each  county  ot  liis  district, 
to  the  Adjutant  and  Ii:  pector  General,  and  to  file  with  the  Clerk  of  the  Superior 
Court,  in  each  county,  a  copy  of  the  enrollment  in  his  county;  and  the  Aid  shall 
be  empowered  and  required  when  there  are  but  few  persons  enrolled  in  a  pwrticular 
company  district  tj  incorporate  and  consolidate,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Gover- 
nor, two  or  more  adjoining  company  districts  into  one,  ri-portiiigtlieconsolid:itionmade 
and  the  numbers  otthe  company  districts  so  combined,  kiuI  in  cities  to  divide  districts. 

Sec.  IV.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  Governor  be  authorized,  ou  receiving 
the  reports  of  the  new  company  districts  provided  for  in  section  third,  to  arrange 
said  companies  into  Regiments  or  Battalions,  defining  tiieir  limits  without  regard  to 
county  lines,  and  if  need  be,  for  the  purpose  of  effective  organization  without  re- 
gard to  Senatorial  Districts.  Provided,  that  no  Kegimental  district  shall  contain 
more  than  one  thousand,  or  less  than  five  hundred,  men,, arranged  in  ten  compa- 
nies; that  no  Battalion  district  of  the  first  class  shall  contain  more  than  six  linn- 
dred,  or  less  than  four  hundreil,  men,  arranged  in  not  more  than  nine,  nor  less  than 
six  compimies;  that  no  Battalion  district  of  the  second  class  siiall  ctintniu  more 
than  tour  hundred,  nor  le.-<.<  than  two  hundred  men,  arranged  in  not  more  than  five, 
nor  less  than  t.vo  companies,  and  that  no  company  di..<trict  shall  contain  more  than 
one  hundred,  nor  less  than  sixty-four  men. 

See.  V.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  to  each  Regiment  there  shall  be  allowed  one 
Colonel,  one  Lieutenant  Colonel,  oneMnjor;  to  each  Battalion  of  the  first  class 
one  Lieutenant  Colonel  and  o:ie  Major;  to  each  Battalion  of  the  second  class  one 
Major;  and  to  each  Company  one  Captain,  four  Lieutenants,  five  Sergeants,  four 
Corporals:  and  that  each  Company  shall  be  divided  into  two  platoons,  each  platoon 
iJtto  two  squads,  and  that  there  shall  be,  for  the  purpose  of  drill  and  discipline,  one 
Lieutenant,  one  Sergeant  and  one  Corpornlto  each  squad. 

Sec.  VI.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  ^-i  soon  as  t lie  arrangement  of  Kegimenfs 
and  Battalions  and  Companies  shall  be  completed  in  each  or  any  of  the  Senatorial 
Districts,  the  Governor  shall  be  required  within  ten  days  thereafter,  to  order  elec- 
tions for  ofliicers  to  command  said  Kegiments,  Battalions  and  Companies  in  the  same 
manner  now  prescribed  in  the  Military  Code  of  Georgia,  and  shall  i.ssue  commissions 
on  the  election  returns  as  therein  also  directed  under  the  Seal  of  the  Executive  De- 
partment, and  in  the  event  of  a  failure  or  neglect  on  the  part  of  the  people  to  elect, 
the  Governor  shall  commission  to  the  vacancy,  a  fit  and  proper  person  on  the  recom- 
mendation of  a  majority  of  the  Company  ofliccrs  concerned.  The  officers  thus  elect- 
ed, orappointedand  commissioned,  to  be  vested  with  all  the  authority  usually  apper- 
taining to  such  grades.  And  all  members  of  the  State  Guard,  who  are  absent  in 
the  service  of  this  State  or  the  Confederate  States,  shall  be  j>ermitted  to  vote  at  said 
election  for  officers  at  the  places  where  they  arc  .stationed,  and  two  commissioned 
officers  shall  preside  at  said  elections,  and  transmit  returns  thereof,  within  fifteen 
da>  8  after  said  election  to  the  Governor  of  this  State,  whose  duty  it  ehall  be  to  con- 
solidate said  votes  as  in  other  cases. 

Sec.  VII.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  whenever  the  Governor  shall  have  been 
advised  by  the  Aid-de-Camp  in  any  Senatorial  District,  that  the  organizations  here- 
inbefore provided  tor.  have  been  completed  in  the  District,  and  the  officers  therein 
elected,  or  appointed  and  commissioned,  if  shall  be  his  duty,  within  fen  days  thereaf- 
ter, to  declare  the  militia  organization  theretofore  existing  in  said  District,  under  the 
Military  Code  of  Georgia,  suspended,  and  the  officers  under  said  previous  organiza- 
tion, relieved  from  their  command,  and  said  officers  shall  be  subject  to  all  the  Mil- 
itary duties  imposed  by  (his  act  upon  persons  of  the  same  age   with  themselves. 

Sec.  VIII.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Aid-deCamp 
ia  each  Senatorial  District,  to  supervise  and  diiect,  under  the  orders  of  the  Governor, 


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all  military  mattorn  within  his  District.  He  shall  be  (ho  channel  of  communicatioD  bo 
tweeu  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General  and  the  troops  in  hie  District,  for  fho 
transmidaioD  of  all  orders,  inatructions,  reportb  and  military  communicutious  gener- 
ally, and  be  shall  be  entitled  to  compensation  at  the  rate  of  seven  dollars  per  day 
for  the  time  he  may  be  employed  in  perfecting  the  ori;anizatiou  liereiti  provided  for,, 
and  for  sucli  time  in  each  quarter,  not  to  exceed  ten  Jays,  as  be  may  be  required  to 
devote  to  military  maiterti  iu  his  District.  He  shall  lie  removable  at  the  pleaaurc 
of  the  Governor. 

See.  IX.  Be  it  further  enacted,  Tliat  it  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  Lieutenant  of 
a  squad  to  keep  a  list  of  all  persons  enrolled  within  the  limits  of  his  bquud  beat, 
and  shall  notify  the  Aid-de-Camp  of  his  District,  tlirouKh  his  Captain,  quarterly, 
of  all  persons  arriving  at  the  a<je  of  si.\teen,  or  who  shall  move  into  or  out  of  his  beat; 
which  notifications  shall  be  consolidiilcd  by  the  .\id-doAJamp,  and  forwarded  with- 
in ten  days  after  the  end  of  each  quaiLt-rof  the  year,  to  the  Adjutant  and  In.'^pector 
General,  uotinij  also  such  other  changes  ui  rank,  command,  ^.c.',  that  may  liave  oc- 
curred during  the  quarter.  The  object  being  to  contiimo  a  complete  enrollment  of 
the  District,  and  to  preserve  its  military  organization. 

Sec.  X.  Aud  be  it  furtlier  enacted,  Tliat  the  persons  enrolled  under  the  ?ccoDd 
section  of  this  Act,  .shall  be  divided  into  two  classes.  The  first  shall  be  composed  of 
those  between  seventeen  and  fifty  yciirs  of  age,  to  be  styled  the  Militia  proper,  who 
ehallbe  first  liable  and  subject  to  perlorm  all  the  military  duties  contemplated  by 
this  Act.  The  second  class  shall  be  composed  of  those  between  sixteen  and  seven- 
teeu  years  of  age,  and  between  fifty  and  sixty  years  of  age,  and  be  styled  the  Mi- 
itia  Reserve  ;  who  siiall  organize  with  the  Jiilitia  proper,  but  shall  not  be  required 
to  drill  or  perform  any  of  the  military  duties  (tiuuemplated  by  this  Act,  until  the 
ililitia  proper  shall  have  been  called  i;ito  active  service,  nor  be  sulijoct  or  liable  to 
any  draft  or  other  compulsory  process  to  fill  any  requisition  for  troop.^,  upon  the 
Governor  of  this  State,  by  the  I'resi.lent  of  the  Confederate  States.  Wlien  the 
Militia  proper  shall  be  called  into  active  service,  the  Lietuenaiit  of  eaoli  Company 
most  advanced  in  age,  shall  bi-  left  with,  and  in  command  of  the  Militia  Keserve  of 
their  respective  Companies.  Aud  if  any  persi)n  belonging  to  the  Militia  Keserve, 
shall  at  any  time  be  elected  tn,  and  shall  accept  any  otlice  under  this  Act,  he  shall  be 
required  to  perforin  all  the  duties  of  the  office  williout  reference  to  the  class  to  which 
he  may  have  b^^loiiged. 

Sac.  XI.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  whenever  in  the  opinion  of  the  Gov- 
ernor, it  sliallb  !  necessary  eitlier  to  rep '1  invasion,  suppress  insurrection,  or  to  exe- 
cute the  laws,  to  call  the  State  Militia,  or  any  pdrt  thereof,  into  active  military  ser- 
vice, he  is  hereby  authorized  and  eui;)0\vered  to  clo  so;  but  the  Militia  Iteserve  cre- 
ated by  this  Act,  shall  be  called  into  active  inilirary  service  onlj'  after  the  Militia 
proper  has  been  called  out  in  great  ouiergeneics,  to  meet  which  the  Militia  proper 
are  deBined  insuliicieut,  and  shall  be  disch.-irged  from  such  active  servic^e  as  soon 
as  the  emergency  to  meet  K'hich  they  are  called  out,  shall  have  passed;  and  when- 
evei'  the  Militia,  or  any  part  thereof,  shall  be  called  into  acttive  military  service, 
they  shall  receive  the  samt;  j)ay  and  nllowaiKtes  as  if  they  were  in  the  service  of  the 
Confederate  States,  aud  shall  be  subj^'ct  to  the  rules  and  articles  of  v.'ar  and  the  reg- 
ulationsfor  the  goverumentof  the  armies  of  the  Coufedeiate  States, 

Sec.  Xlf.  Be  it  furtlier  en-icted,  T!iat  wiienever  the  militia  shall  be  called  into  ac- 
tive servicvj  by  the  G.>vernor,  Bri;;ides  and  Divisicnis  may  be  orgrinized  for  the 
jierioi  of  active  service,  in  such  iniuiuer  as  the  (},)vernor  may  direct;  the  ollieers 
and  men  composing  the  Brigades  and  Divisions  in  all  cases  electing  tln'ir  Brigade 
and  Division  commanders;  provided  that  the  oflices  of  Brigadier  and  Division  Gen- 
eral shall  expire  when  disbanded,  and  the  individuals  holding  them  shall  retuni  to 
service  according  to  their  ages,  as  provided  fur  in  this  a<-t. 

Sec.  XIII.  And  be  ft  furtlier  enacted.  That  whenever  a  requisiticn  for  troops  for 
local  defence  in  thisSiate  shall  be  made  by  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States 
upon  the  Governor  of  this  State,  the  Governor  shall  be  empowered  and  authorized 
to  fill  the  requisition  by  apportioning  the  number  required  anuuig  the  different  regi- 
ments, battalions  or  conqKaniea  of  the  militia  proper,  proviiied  for  by  this  act;  and 
when  the  apportionment  is  made,  the  Governor  may  order  the  number  apportioned 
detached,  drafted  or  selected  in  such  other  manner  as  he  may  deem  advisable,  and 
may  require  the  Aida  de  Camp  for  the  Senatorial  Districds  to  superintend  the  draft, 
or  to  execute  such  orders  as  may  be  iiecessiny  to  accomplish  the  object;  provided, 
that  unmarried  men,  bachelors,  or  widowers  M'ithont  children  shall  be  subject  to 
draft  before  married  men  or  widowers  who  have  children;  aud  provided  further, 
that  the  men  drafted  or  selected  shall  be  formed  into  companies,  battalions  or  regi- 
ments, as  the  Governor  may  diiect,  and  shall  Ije  permiited  to  elect  the  ofificers  to 
command  them  while  in  service  ;  and  in  case  of  neglect  w  refusal  to  elect  when  or- 
dered,: that  the  Governor  may  appoint  the  ofiiceis  and  compel  them  to  organize,  or 
lie  maj'  appoint  officers  to  fill  vacancies,  if  the  men  to  be^commanded  fail  or  refuse 
to  elect :  and  provided  further,  that  in  case  of  reipiisition  for  troops  for  local  service 
in  a  partif^ular  part  of  the  State,  the  Governor  may  fill  it  by  ordering  the  number  of 
troops  called  for  to  be  made  up  from  such  regiments,  battalionsor  companies  us  he 
may  select,  in  the  section  of  the  State  where  the  .service  is  required. 

Sec. XIV.  And  belt  further  enacted,  Tliat  any  militiaman  ordered  into  active 
service,  whether  by  order  of  the  Governor  or  on  a  requisition  from  the  President  of 
the  Confederate  States,  who  shall  tailor  refuse  after  due  notice  to  entt^rsaid  service, 
or  being  therein,  shall  leave  the  service  without  permission,  shall  be  liable  to  be 
tried  and  punished  as  a  deserter,  and  subject  to  all  the  pains  and  penalties  imposed 
upon  deserters  in  the  Rules  and  Articles  of  War  for  the  govcrnuieut  of  the  army  of. 
the  Confederate  States. 


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Sec.  XV.  Be  it  further  enaoted,  That  there  jihall  be  appoinled  by  the  Governor 
one  Surgeon  lor  each  Senatorial  District,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  examine  all  p«r- 
aou8  whui'.laiiii  to  be  unable  to  bear  arms,  and  shall  give  certificates  to  *^uch  &b,  in 
his  jmlgment,  are  unable  to  bear  arms,  clearly  stating  therein  the  causes  of  such  dis- 
ability. Said  Surgeon  shall  be  sworn  to  discharge  his  duties  faithlully  and  impar- 
tially, and  .shall  receive  compensation  at  the  rate  of  five  dollars  per  day  lor  every 
day  he  shall  be  employed  under  the  orders  of  the  Governor,  and  who  shall  be  remov- 
able by  the  Governor  for  neglect  or  failure  in  the  discharge  of  his  dutie.s. 

Sec.  XVI.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  exemptions  from,  and  discharges  af- 
ter enrollment  before  org.'.nizHtion  under  this  act,  may-  be  granted  by  the  Aids  de 
Camp  of  the  Senatorial  Districts,  on  tl.ecertific^ate  'it  the  District  Surgeons-  and  dis- 
charges from  service  after  organ'izntion  under  this  act,  may  b^  granted  by  said  Aids 
de  Camp  on  the  certificate  of  tlie  battalion  or  regimental  turgtjons,  approved  by  the, 
company  and  butlalinn  or  recimonlal  commanders. 

See.  XVII.  And  be  it  fnrtlicr  enacted.  That  any  person  made  snbject  to  service 
under  this  act,  may  volunteer  ill  the  military  or  naval  service  of  the  Confederate 
States,  or  in  any  company  autiiorized  by  tire  nets  of  Congress  of  the  Confederate 
States,  providing  for  local  defence  and  special  service, -but  .shall  again  be  subject  to 
State  a^-rvice,  when  his  term  of  service  ;is  a  volunteer  shall  have  expired. 

Sec.  XVIII.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  any  person  subject  to  seri'oe  under 
this  act,  who  is  in  the  employ  of  th.e  guvernnient  of  the  Confederate  fStates,  or  has 
a  contract  with  said  gov ernmenr,  or  is  employed  on  any  railroad,  may  be  detailed 
for  special  duty, upon  the  request  of  tlie  Secretary  of  War,  addressed  to  the  Gover- 
nor, naming  the  employee  or  contractor,  and  the  length  of  time  for  which  such  de- 
tail is  requested;  jirovided,  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  so  construed  as 
authorizing  the  detail  for  special  duty  ut  any  coinnion  laborer  or  Aher  person  in  the 
einployme:it  of  railroads,  manufactories,  &.c.,  unless  the  President  or  Superintendent 
■of  the  roal,  manufiiclory,  or  other  labor,  shall  make  application  to  the  Governor, 
through  the  .Vid  de  Camp  of  his  Senatorial  District,  on  affidavit,  that  such  persons 
are  indispensable  to  said  road  or  work,  and  their  places  cannot  be  tilled  by  other  per- 
sons not  liable  to  military  ilnty. 

Sec.  XIX.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  in  making  the  enrollment  provided  for  by 
this  act,  the  enrolling  officer  shall  report  by  name  all  persons  having  efficient  guns, 
describiu  :  the  gun,  whether  rifle,  mu^ket,  Or  shot-gun,  and  those  who  have  not  :  also 
such  persons  who  can  furnish  their  own  horses,  saddles  and  bridles,  and  serve  as 
mounted  men  ,  and  that  the  Governor  be  authorized,  whenever  in  his  power  to  do 
so,  to  furnish  arms  and  ammunition  to  the  force  herein  created,  as  in  his  judgment 
he  may  deem  advisable,  upon  the  requisition  and  receipt,  in  duplicate,  of  the  com- 
manders of  regiments,  battalions  or  e.impanies,  who  shall  be  held  accountable  for 
the  same,  and  who  sliall  mrke  returns  of  the  same  ouarterly  to  the  Aoj-itant  and  In- 
spector General,  through  tlie  Aid  de  CainpoftheirSenatoriuldistrict,  and  who  shall, for 
Lis  own  security,  be  entitled  to  make  demand  for  any  gun  furnished  by  him  to  any 
per.<<ou  ;  and  any  person  tailing  to  return  said  gun  to  the  officer  accountable  for  it,  on 
his  demand,  or  who  shall  injure  or  dain.nge  any  gmi  or  animuniticm  entrusfetl  to  his 
care,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  ci.nviction  thereof  in  any  county  in 
this  State,  sliall  be  Sued  or  imprisoned,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Court  trying  the 
case . 

Sec.  XX.  Beit  further  enacted.  That  tlio  Commanders  of  regiments,  battalions, 
brigades  aud  divisions  shall  be  entitled  to  appoint  such  staff  officers  as  are  allowed 
to  similar  grades  in  the  Confederate  service,  and  to  secure  the  efficient  oper.-ition  of 
this  Act,  that  tlie  liiivernor  be  entitled  to  appoint  from  time  to  time  such  i-taff  officeri 
and  ailditioinil  Aids-de-Camji  as  he  may  think  necessary. 

Sec.  XXI.  .\nd  b;'  it  further  enacted.  That  the  officers  of  the  Executive  Depari- 
meiit,  members  of  the  General  Assembly,  Secretary  of  the  Senate,  and  four  principal 
assistants.  Clerk  of  the  Hi>use  of  Kei«ivsentatives  and  six  jirincipal  Cleiks,  and  the 
Clerk  ot  the  joint  Committee  of  both  houses  on  Flniince,  and  the  Clerk  of  Jlilitary 
Committee  of  the  .Senate,  .Judges  of  the  Supreme  and  Superior  Courts  and  Justices 
of  the  Iiifi«ri.orCourt.s,  Attorney  and  Solicitors  General,  IJeporter  and  Clerk  of  the  Su- 
preme Court,  Cleiks  of  the  .Superior  and  Inferior  Courts,  Tax  Collectors,  Sheriffs. 
Ordinaries.  Ministers  of  licligion  in  the  actual  care  and  charge  of  any  organized 
Church  or  Synagogue,  and  such  other  persons  as  the  Governor  in  his  discretion  ni.ny 
deem  it  absolutely  necessary  for  the  public  interest  to  exempt,  shall  be  exempt  from 
the  provisions  of  this  Act. 

Sec.  XXII.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  Governor  be  authorized  to  pre- 
flcribe  the  number  and  kind  of  drills  and  military  exercises  to  be  performed  by  ihe 
militia  proper,  created  by  this  Act  when  not  actively  engaged  in  the  tie'd  and  that  for 
a  failure  to  attend  as  required  or  the  part  of  either  cfticeis  or  men,  it  shall  be  tho 
iiutyof  the  .\id-de-Camp  of  each  district  to  whom  reports  of  delinquencies  shall  be 
made,  within  three  daj's  after  auv  called  drill  or  exercise  by  the  senior  officer  or  non- 
commissioned ofiii;er  present  at  tlie  drill  or  exercise,  to  issufe  a  writ  of  fieri  faciot 
directed  to  any  .Sheriff  or  Cotistable  w-lhin  his  district  to  collect  out  of  tfie  property 
of  any  delinquent,  who  shall  not  furnish  a  satisfactory  excuse,  within  one  week  after 
being  reported,  a  sum  not  less  than  three  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  at  the 
discretion  of  said  Aid-de-Camp,  which  sum  shall  be  turned  over  by  said  Aid-de  Camp 
on  receipt  therefor  to  the  Justices  of  the  Inferior  Court  of  the  county  in  which  tho 
delinquent  may  reside,  to  be  applied  to  the  benefit  of  soldiers'  families  within  said 
county. 

Sec.  XXIII.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  so  much  of  the  militarv  oode  of  th» 
State  of  Georgia  as  is  incoDsietent  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  shall  be,  and  the 


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same  is  hereby  suspended  solonp  as  this  Act  shall  be  in  force,  and  this  Act  shall  be- 
eomeiuopertniveaad  viiid  npou  the  ratification  of  a  treaty  of  peace  between  tlio 
United  States  and  Confederate  States. 

Sec.  XXIV.  And  Oo  it  further  enacted,  That  no  person  fiiall  be  enrolled  under  this 
Act  vrho  is  subject  to  conscription  under  the  Conscript  Act  or  Acts  of  the  Confeder- 
ate Conorress  ;  if  the  State  Eurolliiip  otlicer  has  doubt  whether  any  person  within 
his  limits  is  sulyect  to  enrollment  as  a  conscript,  he  shall  report  the  fact  to  the  Con- 
federate enrolling' officer  of  the  (lougressional  district,  and  if  said  Confederate  officer 
does  not  cause  such  person  to  be  enrolled  within  twenty  days  after  such  notice  is  giv- 
en, the  State  EnroUiiip;  oliicer  sliy,!!  enrol  him  under  tliis  Act,  or  if  he  is  found  to  be 
exempt  after  lie  is  enrolled  by  the  Confedeiate  officer,  he  sliuU  then  be  subject  to 
enroihnent  by  the  State  officer  under  this  Act. 

Sec.  X.KV.  And  be  iffurther  enacted,  That  this  Actsliall  take  effect  and  be  oper- 
ative and  in  force  frnifl  luid  immediately  after  its  passage. 

Sec.  XXVI.  That  all  laws  and  parts  of  laws  militating  against  this  Act,  be,  and 
the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14,  1303. 


(No.  30.) 

An  Act  to  appropriate  money  for  tha  support  of  indigent  famHies  of  soldiers 
who  May  be  in  the  public  service,  for  and  the  support  of  indipfent  soldiers 
who  mij  be  disabled  by  wounds  or  disease  in  the  service  of  this  Stale, 
or  of  the  Confederate  States,  for  and  durin^f  the  year  18G4,and  to  provide 
for  the  application  of  the  same  to  the  purposes  aforesaid,  and  for  other  pur- 
poses, and  to  provide,  in  part,  for  the  same  by  levying'  a  tax  upon  the  cap- 
ital slock  of  tlie  several  Bnnkinp^  Corporations  of  this  State. 
Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  do  enact.  That  from  and  immediately 
afier  the  passage  of  this  Act.  ttie  sum  of  six  millions  of  dollars,  or  so  much 
thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  be,  and  \he  same  is  hereby  appropriated  out  of 
any  money  in  the  TreHsury,  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for  the  support,  for 
and  duriufjthe  year  I "^(14.  of  indig^ent  widows  and  orphans  of  soldiers,  who 
have  died  or  been  killed  in  the  service  of  this  State,  or  the  Confederate 
States;  for  the  support  of  itidio;ent  families  of  soldiers  who  may  be  in  the  public- 
service,  and  for  tile  support  of  indigent  soldiers  and  families  of  soldiers  who 
may  have  been,  and  who  may  hereafter  be  disabled  by  wounds  or  disease  in 
the  service  of  this  State,  or  the  Confederate  Stales  :  provided  the  word  fam- 
ilies, whenever  used  in  this  Act,  shall  be  taken  and  held,  to  mean  all  persons 
who  were  dependent  for  support  on  any  such  person  who  has  gone  or  may 
go  into  the  military  service  from  Georgia,  provided  that  t.'ie  benefits  of  this 
act  shall  not  apply  to  soldiers  who  may  have  been  detailed  for  the  purpose  of 
working  in  work-shops,  and  transacting  other  business  for  which  they  are 
drawing  mechanics  wages.  The  term  indigent,  to  include  wives,  mothers, 
grandmothers,  and  all  those  who  have  to  leave  their  ordinary  business  in  the 
house,  nna  to  labor  in  the  field  to  support  themselves  and  children,  and  who 
ara  not  able  to  make  a  sufficient  support  for  themselves  and  families  ;  provi- 
ded that  the  said  Inferior  Courts  and  persons  appointed  by  them,  be  required  to 
assist  such  families  as  are  partly  self  sustaining,  by  partial  appropriations 
from  this  fund,  or  by  selling  supplies  to  such  families,  at  cost  and  carriage, 
if  either  or  both  can  be  done  without  manifest  injustice  to  the  claims  of  the 
actually  indigent,  as  determined  by  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  it  being  in- 
tended, that  the  provisions  of  this  iict  shall  apply  as  well  to  the  families  of 
all  substitutes  who  are  indigents  in  the  sense  herein  determined  as  to  otlierti 
Sec.  II  be  it  further  enacted,  that  the  funds  raised  by  the  law,  usuallj' 
known  as  the  Income  Tax  .Act,  assented  to  April  IHlh,  1863,  shall  form  and 
be  a  part  of  the  six  millions  of  dollars  appropriated  by  this  act,  instead  of 
being  distributed  amongst  the  counties  of  this  State  according  to  Representa- 
tive population  as  in  said  act  provided  these  funds  shall  be  distributed  ac- 
coidmg  to  the  number  of  beneficiaries  as  provided  in  this  law  for  this  distri- 
bution of  the  balance  of  the  funds  appropriated  by  the  foregoing  first  section 
thereof;  and  that  it  shall  be  thr-  dut^  of  the  Governor,  immediately  after  the 
passage  of  this  act,  to  cause  a  copy  thereof,  to  be  furnished  the  Inferior 
Court  of  each  county  iu  ihis  State,  with  such  instructions,  if  any,  as  he  may 
think  proper  to  give  them;  and  upon  the  receipt  thereof  by  said  Inferior 
Court,  It  shall  be  their  duty  forthwith,  to  proceed  under  the  rules  hereinafter 
prescribed,  to  make  out  a  schedule  of  persons  within  their  lespective  counties, 
who  may  be  entitled  to  the  oenefits  of  this  act.  and  file  the  same  in  their  re- 
spective ofhces,  and  to  forward  to  the  Comptroller  General  before  the  first 
day  of  February,  1864.  or  as  soon  thereafter,  as  may  be  practicable,  a  state- 
ment from  said  schedule  of  the  number  of  widows  residing  within  their  re« 
spectire  counties,  of  soluiers  who  have  died  or  been  killed  in   the  militarj 


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Bervice  of  this  State,  or  the  Confederate  States,  during  the  existing  war,  or 
have  died  after  being  discharged  of  sickness  contracled,  or  wounds  received 
in  the  service,  and  who  aro  unable  to  support  tliemseives,  and  liave  not  the 
means  of  support;  the  number  of  soldiers  who  have  been  discharped,  and 
who  arc  residing  within  the  county,  disabled  by  sickness  or  wounds  in  the 
service,  and  who  are  not  ab'e  to  support  themselves,  and  nave  not  the  meatis 
of  support;  those  who  are  tlie  wives  of  soldiers  in  the  service,  or  disabled, 
discharged  soldiers,  or  whose  son  or  other  ptrson,  upon  whom  they  have 
usually  des'ended  for  support  heretofore,  has  died,  been  killed,  disabled,  or 
is  then  absent  in  the  military  service,  and  who  are  indigent  and  have  not  the 
means  of  support;  also  the  number  of  orphans,  under  the  age  of  twelve 
years,  of  soldiers  hereinbefore  described  ;  and  also  the  number  of  children  of 
other.women  not  widows,  as  hfreinbefore  set  forth,  who  are  under  the  age  of 
twelveycars,  and  children  of  indigent  disabled  soldiers,  who  have  been  dischar- 
ged, and  who  are  under  said  age,  and  which  said  orphans,  and  other  chil- 
dren are  indigent,  and  have  i;ot  the  means  of  support ;  and  also  including, 
in  said  schedule  and  statement,  .ill  children  and  other  indigent  persons  usu- 
ally dependent  on  the  soldier  for  support  over  said  age,  who,  from  bodily  in- 
firmity or  other  cause,  are  unable  to  support  and  maintain  themselves;  which 
said  statement  to  the  Governor  shall  be  accompanied  by  the  atlidavit  of  the 
Justices  making  out  the  schedule,  that  the  same  is  of  file  in  their  office,  aad 
is  just  and  true,  and  is  impartial  to  the  best  of  their  knowledge  and  belief. 
When  the  Comptroller  General  receives  schedules  of  beneficiaries,  as  may  be 
reported  to  him  by  the  first  day  of  February,  he,  under  the  supervision  and 
control  of  the  Governor,  shall  proceed  to  apportion  the  fund  provided  by 
this  act,  amonj  the  several  counties,  where  schedules  are  so  reported,  and 
the  apportionment  shajl  be  made  upon  the  basis  of  the  number  of  beneficia- 
ries returned  nt  the  time  said  apportionment  is  made. 

Sec.  III.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  funds  to  bo  disbursed  in  eack 
county,  shall  be  delivered  to  the  Inferior  Court  of  the  county  or  to  their  order 
under  theseal  of  the  Court,  and  shall,  by  said  Court,  be  appropriated  to  the 
purposes  aforesaid,  in  such  m  inner  as  they  shall  deem  most  efiicient,  and  ia 
substantial  compliance,  as  to  the  application  of  the  funds,  with  the  act  as- 
sented to  November  the  twenty  ninth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  or  in 
cases  when  special  acts  have  been  passed  for  any  of  the  counties,  then  ia 
such  county  or  coHnties  in  substantial  compliance  wi;h  the  local  act  ia 
force  in  such  county  or  counties  except  so'far  as  the  provisions  of  the  act 
of  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one.  ajid  such  special  acts  as  may  be  incon- 
8  stent  uitli  the  provisions  ot  this  act. 

Sec.  IV.  The  Inferior  Courts,  respectively,  of  the  several  counties  of  this 
State,  are  hereby  authorized  to  make  all  such  anangements  and  regulations 
as  they  may  deem  necessary  to  secure  the  custody  and  application  of  the, 
fund  they  mny  severally  receive,  and  they  shall  have  power  to  appoint  one  or 
more  fit  and  discreet  persons  in  each  county,  or  Militia  District  to  receive 
thefund  from  them,  Hnd  appropiiate  it  for  ttie  use  of  the  beneficiaries  of  this 
law,  by  purchasing  articles  of  prime  necessity  for  them,  or  otherwise,  as  may 
be  found  most  to  the  advantage  of  the  persons  interested,  and  to  receive  and 
appropriate  all  such  articles,  as  may  be  delivered  to  them  in  lieu  of  money 
under  any  provisions  of  this  act.  The  Court  may  require  bond  and  surety 
from  each  county  'disbursing  agent  appointed  under  the  provisions  of  this 
section,  and  may  pay  him  such  compensation  as  may  be  agreed  upon.  The 
Interior  Court  of  each  county  may  employ  one  or  more  good  and  responsible 
citizens  in  each  Militia  Distri^-t  of  th,- county,  to  asceitain  the  names  and 
number  of  persons  entitled  to  the  benelits  of  this  act,  and  return  the  same  to 
the  Court  The  Court  shall  have  power  to  decide,  on  the  return,  and  t*» 
consult  other  sources  of  information. 

Sec.  V.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Inferior  Court  of  the  sevei.al  counties 
of  this  State,  and  all  such  agents  and  other  persons  as  they  shall  employ  or 
appoint  to  aid  in  carrying  out  any  provisions  ot  this  act.  or  the  provisions  of 
the  act  of  IstJI  not  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  act.  to  make  diii- 
gent  inquiries,  and  to  see  that  no  person  shall  receive  any  aid  or  assistance 
under  this  act.  who  has  sufficient  income,  or  who  might  have  a  sufficiency  bj 
using  proper  industry  and  labor. 

Sec.  VI.  If  any  agent  appointed  to  receive  and  pay  out  and  appropriate 
this  fund,  or  such  articles  as  may  be  delivered  to  him,  in  lieu  of  money  for 
the  purpose  aforesaid,  shall  apply  the  same  or  any  part  thereof,  to  any  other 
use  or  uses  than  those  set  lorth  in  this  act,  or  shall  trade  or  speculate  on  the 
same,  or  an  V  part  thereof,  or  shall  fail  or  refuse  to  come  to  a  full  and  fair  ac- 
count, on  demand,  with  the  inferior  court  of  the  county  in  which  he  may  havo 
been  appointed,  or  to  such  agent  as  tlie  Inferior  Court  may  appoint,  to  de- 
mand and  make  such  settlement,  he  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  larceny,  after 


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trust  delegated  and  confidence  reposed,  and  on  conviction  thereof,  shall  be 
pauished  by  imprisonment  in  the  Penitentiary  for  a  term  not  less  than  two 
^"^Jior  more  than  seven  ye'^r8:  Provided,  this  act  shall  not  operate  as  a  repeal 
of  the  act  of  1861,  or  of  any  local  act  authorizing  county  taxes  lor  the  sup- 
port of  soldiers  farcilies. 

Sec.  VII.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  Governor  shall  make  apportion- 
ment and  distribution  of  the  fund  herein  appropriated,  to  the  .^(^veral  Inferior 
Courts,  in  quarterly  instHllroeuts,  or  at  such  other  stated  intervals  of  time  as 
lie  may  think  best.  In  making  each  distribution  his  Excellency  the  Gover- 
nor, assisted  by  th^.  Comptroller  General,  shall  distribute  the  same,  in  such 
manner  jind  in  such  propurtions  as  he  may  find  necessary,  so  far  as  practic=<- 
ble,  to  equalize  the  benefits  to  be  received  under  this  act,  by  each  bepefi- 
ciary:  Provided,  That  if  upon  any  distribution  it  siiall  appear,  that,  owing  to 
the  presence  of  the  enemy,  or  other  cause,  the  return  of  any  county  has  not 
been  made,  it  shall  be  tl;e  duty  of  his  Excellency  the  Governor,  to  retain  and 
hold  for  future  delivery  to  the  benetieiaries  of  such  county  so  failing,  such 
reasonable  and  just  proportion  of  the  fund  as  he  may  deem  appropriate; 
which  he  shall  distribute  to  the  proper  authorities  of  such  county,  as  soon  as 
jiracticable:  and  if  at  any  time  he  shall  receive  information  or  come  to  such 
conclusion  .  to  require  full  explanation  and  report  fiom  the  Justices  of  the 
Inferior  Court  of  such  county;  and  he  may  require  in  said  report  that  the 
said  Justices  shall  state  on  oath  to  the  best  and  utmost  of  their  information  and 
belief,  the  amount  and  nature  of  the  aid  received,  and  of  the.amount  and  na- 
ture of  the  property  held  hy  any  and  all  persons  who  have  been  allowed  to 
become  beneficiaries  of  this  act  in  their  county. 

Sec.  VIII.  Be  it  further  enact'd.  That  in  all  cases  where  it  shall  be  the  de- 
sire of  any  of  the  beneficiaries  of  this  act  to  remove  from  any  county  there- 
of, he,  she  or  they,  shall  have  tlie  right  to  make  known  their  desire  to  the  In- 
ferior Court  of  the  county  of  liis,  her  or  their  residence;  Whereupon  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  Inferior  Court  to  p;iy  to  the  beneficiaries  so  detiring  to  re- 
move, the  amount  of  money  to  which  he,  she  or  they  is  entitled,  out  of  the 
lu'nds  alieady  apportioned  and  paid  over  to  the  Inferior  Court  for  that  county 
for  the  current  quarter,  and  also  forthwith  to  give  a  certificate  to  the  party 
applying  of  the  facts,  which  shall  be  delivered  to  the  Inferior  Court  of  tie 
county  to  which  the  beneficiaries  may  remove,  whereupon  the  Inferior  Courts 
of  both  counties  shall  make  report  nf  the  facts  to  the  Governor,  who  shall  iu 
the  next  quarterly  distribution  of  funds,  cause  thapro  rota  amount  to  which 
said  beneficiaries  may  be  entitled  to  be  deducted  from  the  fund  to  be  sent  to 
the  county  from  which  he,  sheer  they  sliall  have  removed,  and  distributed 
to  the  county  into  which  he,  she  or  they  shall  have  removed  for  the  benefit  of 
such  beneficiaries. 

Sec.  IX.  Ba  it  further  enacted,  That  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  grand 
jury  in  each  county  to  make  diligent  inquiry  into  the  returns,  accounts  and 
disbursements  of  the  Inferior  Courts,  and  such  agents  as  may  be  appointed 
by  said  Courts  under  this  act,  and  to  make  report  thereon  iii  their  geneial 
presentments,  in  case  they  can  obtain  intormatinn  and  evidence  of  the  viola- 
tion of  this  act,  by  any  person  or  persons  charged  with  its  execution  in  their 
county. 

Sec  X.  Beit  further  enacted,  That  the  several  banking  corj^orations.  and 
all  incorporated  companies  using  banking  piivileges  of  this  State,  are  hereby 
subject  and  liable  to  pay  such  an  ad  valorem  tax  upori  their  cajiital  stock, 
assets,  real  and  personal  property,  ns  is  laia  upon  the  taxable  property  of  the 
tax  payers  of  this  State;  said  paym.-;nts  to  be  made  directly  to  the  Comptrol- 
ler General  of  this  State;  and  in  assessing  ^aid  taxes,  the  ComulroUer  Gener- 
al shall  levy  the  same  tax  upon  said  corporations  as  is  l(«vied  upon  all  other 
property;  /^rf*i;iV/er/,  That  Uie  taxes  raised  under  this  section  shall  become  a 
part  of  the  a[>propriation  made  by  this  act. 

Sec.  XI.  Repeals. conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  I4th,  1863. 


(No.  40  ) 
An  Act  to  protect  camp  grounds  from  iiitnision,and  for  other  purposes. 

Section  1.  I'he  General  Assembly  of  <*■  ftate  of.  Georgia  do  enact.  That  the  trus- 
tees. Commi.-isioners  aud  other  owners  of'  iip  grounds  in  this  State,  shall  luivetlieex 
dative  right  to  prevent  irtruders  and  i-quatters  from  occupyiig  any  land  within  tl  e 
boimdarie.-i  of  said' camp  grouud.s,  and  for  in.stitnting  proeeediiigK  against  any  such 
intrnder.s  and  squatters,  iu  the  same  manner  as  is  now  authorized  by  law  against  in- 
truders and  trespassers  iipon  laud  in  tliis  State. 

Seo.  II.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person,  or 
any  slave  or  free  person  of  color,  to  vendor  expose  to  sale  during  the  period  of  divine 


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worship  witliin  one  mile  of  the  plnce  of  worship  in  said  camp  jErround,  any  article, 
commodity,  or  thing  whatever,  without  the  written  consent  of  a  majority  of  said 
trustees,  commissiouera,  or  owners,  under  penalty,  if  a  white  person,  of  beine  in- 
dicted, and,  on  conviction,  tiued  or  imprisoned  at  the  discretion  of  the  Court,  and  if  a 
slave  or  free  person  of  color,  of  receiving  such  corporeal  puiiishmant  as  the  Court 
may  intlict. 
Sec.  III.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14,  1863. 


(No.  41.) 

An  Act  to  allow  the  Ordin.iriesof  this  State  to  charge  and  receive  certain  fees. 

Section  I.  The  General  A.-isembly  of  Georgia  do  enact.  That  the  Ordinaries  of  this 
State  be,  and  are  hereby  allowed  to  cliarge  and  receive  the  following  fees,  ia  addition 
to  the  fees  now  allowed  them  by  law,  to-wit: 

For  signing  probate  of  will  or  codicil $1  25 

For  copying  of  records,  per  hundred  words, ;.       TJ 

For  each  certificate  or  seal '. GO 

For  process  against  executor,  administrator  or  guardian  charged  with   misman- 
agement         50 

For  each  search ; 15 

For  each  ease  litigated  before  the  Ordinary 3  GO 

For  issuing  commission  to  examine  witness 1  25 

For  issuing  commission  to  examine  any  person  alleged  to  be  idiot,  lunatic,  in- 
sane, &.C., 2  50 

For  decision  on  judijmtMit  on  hearing  such  case 2  00 

For  commission  have  one  year's  support  set  apart  to  widow  or  minor 1  25 

For  recording  return  of  coumiission  in  such  case,  if  under  $5  00 1  00 

If  over  $5  00 1  25 

For  examining  books,  where  Ordinary's  aid  is  required .25. 

For  examining  books  and  giving  extract 1  00 

For  appointing  guardian  to  eacli  fn-e  iiegro--whole  service 2  25 

For  every  order  passed  (ini'liidinganv  fee  heretofore  allowed  for  an  order),  the 

whole  fee  to  be .•■••-,- * 1  ^^ 

For  every  copy  of  such  order  (iuchuling  any  fee  heretofore  allowed  for  copy- 
ing any  order),  the  whole  fee  to  be 50 

For  every  service  required  and  perfdrmed.  for  which  no  fees  arc  specified  by 
law,  the  same  feus  as  are  8l!(i\Yed  Clerks  of  the  Superior  Courts  for  simi- 
lar .services,  as  torn  like  amount  of  labor. 
Sec.  II.  That,  in  case  the  fees  of  Ordinaries  increased  by  anv  act  of  this  General 
Assembly,  the  rate  of  per  centage  of  increase  ^Lall  obtain  on  tlie  fees  allowed  in  thi« 
act. 
Sec.  III.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14, 1863. 


(Xa.  42.) 


An  Act  to  define  the  time  that  County  Treasurers  in  the  several  counties  of  this  State 
shall  hold  their  offices. 

Section  I.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  General  Assem)»ly  of  fli*^  State  of  Georgia,  That 
from  and  after  the  hrst  day  'f  Jiinnii'y  next,  the  County  Treasurers  of  the  several 
counties  in  this  State  shall  liold  tli<  ir  (  Clces  for  two  years,  whetlicr  said  Treasurer* 
are  elected  by  the  puetile  or  appo'nteil  by  the  Inferior  Courts. 

Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Asiented  to  Dec.  14,  ISiv). 


['So.   4.3.) 

An  Act  to  repeal  so  much  of  the  2.^j09th,  2510fh,  2.5I2th  and  3618th  secti(m8of  the 
Code  of  (ieorgia  as  rinuires  three  numths'  notice  to  be  given  in  a  public  gazette 
of  an  application  fur  titles  upon  bonds  of  deceased  persons,  and  to  provide  for  tiie 
trial  of  such  cases  when  objections  are  filed,  and  to  provide  for  tiie  payment  of 


costs  in  such  cases. 


Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  from  and  after  tlio 
passage  of  this  net,  so  much  of  the  25(yth,  251flth,  2512th  and  3t)iSth  sections  of  the 
Code  of  Georgia  as  requires  notice  to  be  given  to  all  persons  concerned,  by  publica- 
tion in  a  gazette,  of  anplication  for  an  order  requiring  titles  to  be  made  by  tne  legal 
repreeeutatires  of  a  oeceased  person,  be,  and  the  same  b  hereby  repealed. 


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Sec.  II.  B»  it  farther  enacted,  That  fifteen  days'  notice  in  writing  to  the  adminie- 
trntor,  or  executor,  and  h^^irs  at  law  of  tlie  deceased,  if  to  be  found  in  this  State,  and, 
if  non-residents,  by  publication  in  one  of  the  gazettes  of  this  State  for  30  days,  shall 
be  deemed  sufficient  notice  to  authorize  the  granting  of  an  order  for  the  execution 
of  titles,  when  uo  objection  is  filed  by  the  legal  representatives  of  said  estate,  or  heira 
at  law. 

Sec.  III.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  when  objections  in  writing  are  filed  in  the 
office  of  said  Ordinary,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Ordinary  to  liear  evidence  as  to 
the  fact,  whether  the  conditions  of  said  bond  have  been  complied  with  by  the  pay- 
ment of  the  pnrcha.se  money,  or  not,  and  to  grant  an  order  requiring  said  titles  to  be 
made,  or  not.  ns  he  may  think  the  principles  of  justice  may  reciuire,  and  either  party 
being  dissatistied  with  the  decision,  may  appeal  to  the  Superior  Court  upon  the  same 
terms  as  appeal.-*  are  granted  in  other  cases. 

Sec.  IV.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  whenever  the  party  making  said  bond  shall 
have  died  before  the  time  at  which  said  titles  were  to  be  made  and  before  the  pur- 
chase money  became  due,  the  cost  of  said  proceeding  shall  be  paid  by  the  represen- 
tative of  said  estate,  but  if  the  time  for  making  said  titles  and  the  payment  of  said 
money  elapse  before  the  death  of  the  obligor,  then  the  costs  shall  be  paid  by  the  ap- 
plicant. 

Sec.  V.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14th,  1863. 


(Xo.  44.) 
Au  Act  to  amend  the  2480th  section  of  the  lievised  Code  of  Georgia. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Georgia  do  enact.  That  from  and 
after  the  pa.ssage  of  this  act,  the  first  clau.se  of  the  two  thousand  four  hundred  and 
eightieth  section  of  the  Revised.  Code  of  Georgia,  be  amended  by  iuseiting  the 
Words  "real  estate  and"  between  the  words  "the"  and  "personal,''  thereby  making 
said  clause  read,  "all  the  real  estate  and  personal  property." 
Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws- 
Approved  Dec.  12, 1863. 


pas 


(No.  45.) 

An  Act  to  amend  the  IS.'Joth  paragraph  of  the  Revised  Code  of  Georgia. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  from  and  after  the 
Lssage  of  this  act,  if  any  person   shall  violate  the  provisions  of  the  one  thousand 

r-l,f    I l..„.l    .,_J    c,,_.    iy.:f     -  ^  .       *■     ,.       ,  ..    ^  ■  .  1  _ 


'•iglit  hundred  and  filty-fifth  paragraph  of  the  Revised  Code  of  Georgia,  he,  she,  or 
they  shall  be  punished  by  fine  atthe  discretion  of  the  Court. 

Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws.  , 

Assented  to  Dec-  12th,  1863. 


(No.  46.) 


An  Act  to  repeal  the  six  hundred  nnd  thirty-third  section  of  the  Code  of  Georgia, 
relative  to  road  commissioners. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Georgia  do  enact.  That  the  six 
hundred  and  thirty-third  section  of" the  Code  of  Georgia  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby 
repealed,  any  law,  custom  or  usage  to  the  contrary,  notwithstanding. 

Assented  to  Nov.  28, 1863. 


(No.  47 


An  Act  to  repeal  section  4459  of  the  Revised  Codeof  Georgia,  and  to  substitute  an- 
other in  lieu  thereof. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  Georgia  do  enact.  That  from  and  after  the 
passage  of  this  act,  section  4459  of  the  Revised  Code  of  Georgia  be,  and  the  same  is 
hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  II.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  common  Jaw  be  revived  and  declared  of 
full  force  and  effect,  as  if  said  section  of  the  Code  had  not  been  adopted ;  and  that 
any  person  or  persons  charged  with  the  offenses  known  to  the  common  law  as  fore- 
stalling, regrating  or  engrossing,  may  be  indicted  in  any  Superior  or  Corporation 
tJourt  having  juriadiction  thereof,  and  who  may  be  found  guilty,  shall  be  punished 
by  fine  not  exceeding  the  value  of  the  poods  so  forestalled,  regrated  or  engrossed,  and 
punished  in  the  common  jail  not  exceeding  six  months.    It  is  hereby  made  the  duty 


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«f  the  JndKep  of  the  sbovo  named  Courts,  to  give  this  section  in  special  charge  to 
their  refpective  Grand  Juries,  at  thecpenicg  of  thebtveral  terms  thereof. 
Sec.  111.  Repeals  coDflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  5, 1863. 


(No.  48.) 
An  Act  to  amend  section  fiUth  of  the  Code  of  Georgia. 

Section  I.  The  General  Acpeinbly  of  the  State  of  Georgia  do  enact.  That  from 
and  after  the  paesiige  of  this  ut-t,  the  followirg  words,  to-wil :  "provided,  ihe  public 
road  overseer  in  tliaige  of  tlRiii  retpectively  are  paid  one  dollar  per  day  for  each 
band  80  liable"  in  Kction  mx  hundred  and  elevculli  (Cilllli)  et  the  Codeof  Georgia, 
be  altered  so  as  to  read  as  follows,  fo-wit :  '"provided,  the  public  load  overpter  hav- 
ing charge  of  them  recpectively,  aie  paid  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  day  for 
each  hand  ho  liable.'" 

Sec.  11.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  .'),  1863. 


(No.  49.) 

An  Act  to  amend  the  lG30lh  section  of  the  Revised  Code  of  Georgia,  and  for  oilier 
purposes. 

Section  1.  TheGeneral  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  that 
portion  of  the  second  paragraph  which  follows  tlie  word  "located"  hhall  be  btriekeu 
out,  and  the  remainder  of  said  paragraph  shall  be  as  follows  :  The  Cleik  of  said 
Court,  sliall  place  before  the  Judge  ol  the  Superior  Court  of  the  county,  at  the  next 
term  after  the  expiration  of  said  advertisement,  a  copy  of  said  declaration  and  /  fli- 
davit  and  certificate  of  publication,  and  if  the  Comt  l)esatihfifd  that  the  nf plica- 
tion is  legitimately  wilhin  the  purview  and  intention  of  this  Code,  it  shall  pass  an 
order  declaring  the  said  application  grunted,  and  a  certified  copy  of  said  declaration, 
affidavit,  certificate  of  publication  and  order  shall  be  held  and  received  as  evidence 
of  the  charter  of  said  corporation  in  any  Conii  in  this  State. 

Sec.  11.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  in  any  cases  in  which  parties  have  made  efforts 
toobtain  a  charter  under  said  section  of  the  Code,  they  be  allowtd  to  have  such 
declaration,  affidavit  ami  eeitificate  filed, and  such  order  t.iken  at  the  next  teim  of 
the  Superior  Court  of  tlieir  respective  counties  succeediDg  the  passage  of  this  act. 

Sec.  111.  Beit  further  enacted,  That  this  act  shall  go  into  operation  from  the  day 
of  its  passage. 

Sec.  IV.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Aesented  to  Dec.  5, 1863. 


(No.  50.) 

An  Act  to  amend  the  3d  section  of  the  Code,  and  to  carry  into  cfTect  on  the  first  day 
of  January,  1<S('>4,  an  act  passed  by  the  jjresent  Get^eral  Assenjbly  rehitiveto  sepa- 
rating the  ofRcea  of  Receiver  of  Tax  Returns  and  Tax  Collectors  of  this  State. 

Whereas,  The  third  section  of  the  Code  provides,  that  ''all  acts  heienfter  passed 
by  the  General  yVsscmbly,  unless  specially  jircvided  otherwise  in  the  net,  .'^hall  take 
effect  and  be  obligatory  only  from  the  first  day  of  July  next  succeeding  the  date  of 
their  passage;''  and  whereas,  the  present  General  Assembly  passed  an  an  act  to  re- 
peal an  act  assented  to  the  3()th  day  of  November,  1861,  consolidating  the  oflices  of 
Receiver  of  Tax  Retunis  and  Tax  Collectorsof  this  State,  which  wasajijirovedby  the 
Governor  Nov.  30th,  18G3,  and  the  said  act  does  not  state  when  it  shall  go  into  effect ; 
for  remedy  whereof, 

Section  I.  Beit  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Geoigia,  That 
the  above  recited  act  separating  the  offices  of  Receiver  of  Tax  Returns  and  Tax 
Collectors  shall  go  inio  operation  on  the  first  day  of  January,  18("4. 

Sec.  II.  This  act  shall  takc^  effect  and  be  of  force  from  the  day  of  its  passage,  and 
that  all  conflicting  laws  are  hereby  repealed. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14,  18G3. 


(No.  51. 


An  Act  to  repeal  paragraph  lfi."i8  <if  part  second,  title  second,  chapter  first,  article 
first,  section  first  of  the  Revised  Code  of  Georgia,  to  legalize  marriages  in  viola- 
tion of  the  same. 

Whereas,  By  the  above  cited  paragraph  of  the  Revised  Code  of  Georgia,  all  mar- 
riages not  solemnized  in  conformity  with  the  other  provisions  of  said  Code,  are  de- 


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clored  to  be  invalid  ;  and  wliereas,  snid  innovr.tion  upon  the  law  as  it  etood  before 
the  adoption  of  said  Itevised  Code,  will  have  the  effect  of  giving  rise  to  perplexing 
questious  of  legitimacy  of  children  and  rights  of  property,  and  domestic  uuhappi- 
ness ;  tlicrefore, 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  the  StHte  of  Georgia  do  euabt,  fhat  from  and 
after  the  passage  of  this  act,  paragra])!!  IfioS  of  ])art  hucouiI,  title  st^cond,  chapter 
first,  article  firHt,  section  first  of  the  Kevined  Code  of  Georgia,  be  repealed. 

Sec.  II.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  all  marriages  heretofore  solemnized,  not 
in  conformity  with  the  provisions  of  said  ■  before  recited  paragnipli,  shall  be  valid  ; 
provided,  iiotliing  in  this  act  shall  excuse  any  Ordinary.  Judge,  Justice  or  Minister  of 
the  Gospel  for  any  non-performance  of  duty,  as  required  in  said  paragraph  1653  of 
said  part,  tide,  chapter  and  section  of  said  Code. 

Sec.  III.  liepeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  1-1,  18G3. 


(No.  5-?.) 


An  Act  to  repeal  that  portion  of  the  twO'thousand  two  hundred  and  eighty-seventh 
section  of  the  Code  of  Georgia  as  prohibits  the  creation  of  trusts  for  male  persons 
of  sane  mind. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  Georgia  do  enact.  That  from  and  after  the 
passage  of  this  act,  that  j)nrtiou  of  the  two  thousand  two  hundred  and  eiglity-sev- 
enth  (-.^287)  section  of  the  Code  of  Georgia  as  prohibits  the  creation  of  trusts,  express 
or  implied  in  any  property,  for  any  person  of  sane  mind,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby 
repealed. 

Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  11, 1863. 


(No.  53.) 


An  Act  to  repeal  the  third  and  twelfth  sections  of  the  Code  of  Georgia,  relative  to 
the  construction  of  statutes. 

Section  I.  The  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Georgia  do  enact,  That  from  and 
after  the  passage  of  this  act,  the  third  and  twelfth  sections  of  the  Code  of  Gdorgia 
be,  and  tlie  same  are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  II.  Repeals  conflicting  laws. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14, 1863. 


(No.   1.) 

Kesokitions  expressive   of  the    determination    of  Georgia  to    prosecute   tba 
preseut  v?ar  with  the  utmost  vigor  and  energy. 

Whereas,  at  a  session  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Georgia, 
in  the  year  JHGl,  the  following  resolutions  were  adopted  : 

Rbsolve.d,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  this  General  Assembly,  that  the  separation 
of  those  States,  now  forming  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  from  tbe 
United  States,  is,  and  ought  to  be  iinal  and  irrevocable,  and  that  Georgia 
■will,  under  no  circumstances,  entertain  any  proposition  from  any  quarter, 
which  may  have  for  its  object  a  restoration  or  reconstruction  of  the  late 
Union,  on  any  terms  or  conditions,  whatever. 

Resolved,  That  the  war  which  the  United  States  are  waging  upon  the  Con- 
federate States,  should  be  met  on  our  part  with  the  utmost  vigor  and  energy, 
until  our  independence  and  nationality  are  unconditionally,  acknowledged  by 
the  United  States. 

Resolved,  That  Georgia  pledges  herself  to  her  sister  States  of  the  Confed- 
eracy, that  she  will  stand  by  them  throughout  the  stru^'gle,  she  will  contrib- 
ute all  the  noeans  which  her  resources  will  supply,  so  far  as  the  same  may  be 
necessary,  to  the  support  of  tb«  common  cause,  and  will  not  consent  to  laj 


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dowQ  arms  until  peace   is  established    ou  the  basis  of  the    foregoing   reso- 
latioDS. 

Whereas,  The  enunciation  of  said  resolutions  is  as  truly  expressive  of  the 
position  of  Georgia  to-day  as  at  the  time  of  their  adoption,  and  whereas,  the 
meeting  of  another  General  Assembly  of  the  State,  aftar  a  lapse  of  two  years 
more  of  struggle  for  independence,  presents  an  occasion  peculiarly  appropri- 
att  to  the  renewal  of  these  declarations,  and  that  the  world  may  know  that 
Georgia  does  not  tiro  of  the  war  until  her  purpose  is  accomplished,  nor  abate 
anything  of  tho  spirit  and  determination  manifested  by  said  resolutions, 
Tberctore, 

Resolved,  Xhnt  this  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  General  As- 
sembly met,  with  a  fixed  and  unaltered  purpose  to  stand  by  them,  do  re-a£Erm 
and  re-adopt  said  resolutions  in  their  letter  and  spirit. 

Resolred  further,  That  the  Governor  cause  copies  of  these  resolutions  to  be 
transmitted  to  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  tlie  Governors  of 
the  several  States  of  the  Confederacy,  and  also  to  the  President  of  the  Sen- 
ate, and  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Confederate 
Congress,  with  the  request  that  they  cause  said  resolutions  to  be  rend  before 
their  respective  bodies. 

Asented  to  Nov.  24,1863. 


CNo.  2) 
Resolutiors  in  relation  to  the  Tax  Act  of  Congress. 

Whereas,  the  establishment  of  as  many  depots  for  the  delivery  of  the  tax 
in  kind  as  is  practicable,  would,  inlhe  judgment  of  this  General  Assembly, 
greatly  conduce  to  the  convenieucapf  producers,  and  at  the  same  time  sub- 
serve the  best  interests  of  the  GovCTument.     It  is  therefore. 

Re.solrtd,  Tliat  we  respectfuliy  request  our  Senators  and  Representatives 
to  urge  upon  Congress  the  propriety  of  so  modifying  the  lav/  (if  necessary) 
as  to  authorize  and  require  the  establishment  of  depots  for  the  delivery  of 
tax  in  kind  at  evei*y  depot  on  the  lines  of  rail  roads  in  the  Confederate  States, 
except  at  such  ^s  are  manifestly  unnecessary  in  the  judgment  of  the  District 
Quarter  Master. 

Resolved  2d,  That  his  Excellency  the  Governor  be  requested  to  furnish  our 
Senators  and  Representatives  in  Congress  a  copy  of  these  resolutions. 

Assented  to  Dec  14,  1863. 

fc.  ■  

(No.  3.) 

Resolutions  requesting  Congress    to   pass    laws  allowing  our  volunteers  to 
elect  their  own  field  and  company  officers. 

Resolved  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Slate  of  Georgia,  Thot,  believing 
it  to  be  the  constitutional  right  of  all  soldiers  who  went  from  Georgia 
through  tbe  agency  of  the  State,  to  elect  their  regimental,  battalion  and 
company  officers,  we  request  our  representatives  in  Congress,  as  a  proper  ap- 
preciation of  the  patriotic  devotion,  patience  and  toil  of  our  gallant  soldiers 
in  this  sanguinary  struggle  for  independence,  to  use  their  zealous  eflforts  to 
procure,  at  the  earliest  practicable  day.  such  a  change  in  existing  Confeder- 
ate laws  as  shall  secure  the  right  of  all  regiments,  battalions  and  companies  in 
the  Confederate  service  from  this  State,  to  elect  all  their  regimental,  battalion 
and  company  officers. 

Resolved  2d,  That  his  Excellency  the  Governor  is  hereby  requested  to  fur- 
nish a  copy  of  this  resolution  to  each  of  our  Senators  and  Representatives  in 
Congress. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14,  1863. 


('No.4.) 
Resolution  granting  free  transportation  to  soldiers  on  furlough. 

Resolved  by  the  General  Assembly  of  Georgia,  That  our  Senators  and  Rep- 
resentatives in  Congress  be  requested  to  procure  the  passage  of  an  act  grant- 
ing free  transportation  to  all  private  soldiers  in  the  Confederate  service  on 


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farloQgb,  from  their  respective  commands  to  tlieir  bomes  and  to  retarn  to 
their  commands,  in  the  game  manner  that  tree  transportation  is  granted  to 
soldiers  ou  sick  furlough. 

Assented  to  Nov.  26,  1363. 


(No.  5.)   ) 

A  resolution  reqaesting  the  action  of  Congreli^er  th$  relief  of  indigent  sol- 
diers families.  ^t 

Whereas  many  families  have  been  left    destitute  of  the   means  6"f  supporJb^.x' 
by  the  absence  of  the  male  laboring  portion  of  said  families,  in   the  army  of  ^ 
tfie  Confederate  States,  therefore, 

lUsolced  hy  the  Senate  and  Hiuse  of  Representatives  of  the  State  of  Georgia, 
That  our  Senators  and  Representatives  in  Congress  be  requested  to  take 
nilcliineasures  as  will  cause  the  collectors  of  the  '^ tar.  in  kind"  for  the  Con- 
federate Government,  to  release  to  the  Justices  of  the  Inferior  Court  of  the 
counties  of  this  State,  upon  theii  application,  so  much  of  the  said  "tax  in 
.AiM</"  of  the  county  in  which  the  Justices  making  the  application  reside,  as 
wili,  \n  their  (the  said  Justices)  opinion,  be  necessary  for  the  support  of  the 
destitute  or' indigent  soldiers  families  of  their  county. 

Assented  to  Nov.  16,  1863. 


(No.   6.) 

A  resolution  to  increase  the  pay  of  pri^Jftesand  non-commissioned  officers  in 
the  Confederate  Service. 

Resolocd  hy  the  Senate  and  House  of  Represcniatices,  That  our  Senators  and 
Representatives  in  Congress  be  requested  to  use  their  influence  to  increase 
the  pay  of  privates  and  non-commissioned  "officers  in  the  Confederate  serrice. 

Assented  to  Dec.  14,  IS63.  ♦ 


(No.  7.;  »   ^,    , 

Resolution  to  suspend  the  collection  of  tax  in  kind  iiw9(n°tain  cases. 

Whereas,  there  are  many  localities  in  the  State  of  Georgia  where  the  citi- 
zens have  been  stripped  of  nearly  every  species  of  personal  property  •by  the 
enemy  or  the  agenti,  or  pretended  agents  of  the  .Confederate  Government 
and  left  without  the  means  of  paying  their  Confederate  tax.  and  especially  thft 
"tax  in  kind,"  for  the  tenth  has  not  bec:i  left  them.     Be  it  therefore 

Resolved,  Th.it  the  Governor  of  this  State  bo  requested  to  use  his  utmost 
exertions  with  the  President  and  Secretary  of  War  to  liavo  the  collection  of 
the  "tax  in  kind"  suspended  in  all  cases  where  the  citizens'  crop  out  of  which, 
his  tax  was  to  be  paid  has  been  taken  by  the  enemy,  or  our  army  or  officers, 
and  tliat  the  collection  of  all  Confederate  Tax  be  suspended  in  cases  where 
the  property  of  the  citizen  has  been  taken  by  Confederate  soldiers  or  officers 
without  compensation,  until  such  compensation  is  paid. 

Be  it  therefore  resolvd.  That    in  case  the  President  or    Secretary  of  war 
fail    to    grant   the   relief  abovej  mentioned     the  Governor  be   requested  to 
call  the  attention  of  our  Senators    and  Representativesj  in   Congress  to  this 
matter,  and  to  use  all  lawful  means  to  prorect  th ^  citizens  against  wrong  and 
injustice. 

Assented  to  Nov.  18, 1363:  t' . , 


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